HTC angers users with Fantastic Four push notification ad

Users on Reddit are quite upset at HTC for pushing a Fantastic Four movie ad into their notifications. Ads are something everyone hates, but are sometimes required to cut upfront cost. That is why you would never expect to see them in a device you just paid over $500 for.

HTC has not had a good year and is clearly hurting for cash. We have already seen them roll out BlinkFeed ads and now it looks like they may be adding push notification ads as well. Some of you may remember a few years ago apps in the Google Play Store could push ads to your notifications, but they got so annoying Google eventually banned them entirely. Why HTC would think users wouldn’t mind these types of ads is beyond me.

The reports are users with HTC One M7, M8, or M9’s are receiving the ad. Many of the Reddit comments are talking about never buying an HTC device again or getting rid of their current HTC phone because of the recent ad changes.

Now to clear some things up the ad does say “Fantastic Four Theme”, implying HTC is marketing a new theme they have available to download similar to what Samsung did with the Avengers themes. They aren’t directly saying go see the movie and that is all like a regular ad would do.

How ever you feel about the ad it’s easy to turn off. If you have one of the listed HTC devices head to the settings app > sound & notification > app notifications > sense home and turn off notifications. You will no longer be notified for these types of ads ever again.

Source: Reddit

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