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How do I stop The Sun Notifications on Samsung S6 Edge?

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Hmm S6, I'm not sure what Android version you got but you can try this.

 

When you get a notification, long press it and see what comes up. Do you see this?

 

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Hi. I have a Samsung S6 Edge. For the past 3 months or so I have been getting 10-20 notifications per day with news articles from the sun (a website called "the sun news"). If I click the notification I go directly to their website and can read the news article.

 

I dont have an account and I dont pay for the sun news. The Sun is a British tabloid newspaper, and I live in Norway, Most of the news are not that interesting anyways. It sounds like I get a text message or a facebook update 10-20 times a day and its only news I dont want  to read. I have looked through notification settings and I dont know witch app is doing this,, what app can I disable notifications from?`or how do I stop this?

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Hmm S6, I'm not sure what Android version you got but you can try this.

 

When you get a notification, long press it and see what comes up. Do you see this?

 

image.png.ab2fe455c694a680f4732aa86254831d.png

 

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27 minutes ago, Murasaki said:

If its from a website you should check your browser's settings.

If android is recent enough above method should work for all notif.

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1 hour ago, aDoomGuy said:

If android is recent enough above method should work for all notif.

yes, but telling your phone to not show a notification isn't the same as disabling that notification at the source. in this case OP probably clicked "allow this website to show notifications" inadvertently when visiting the site once and to get rid of those notifications they should now disable them in their browser's settings. your method would hide all notifications from the browser, which may not be what they want.

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15 minutes ago, Sauron said:

yes, but telling your phone to not show a notification isn't the same as disabling that notification at the source. in this case OP probably clicked "allow this website to show notifications" inadvertently when visiting the site once and to get rid of those notifications they should now disable them in their browser's settings. your method would hide all notifications from the browser, which may not be what they want.

Actually, on Android 13 doing it that way on a notif from a webpage will display an extra button that lets you disable it for that single webpage. I have all my Chrome notifs disabled but I was curious about this so I turned them on and subscribed to some random page. I don't think his S6 can do this though due to old Android.

 

But also OP also said.

 

"what app can I disable notifications from?"

 

So regardless he doesn't seem so keen on any other notifications.

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I scrolled down to see the list of notifications and held down on the one from sun news. I got a menu similar to in your picture with a sliding blue thing I could use to turn off notifications!! Thank you so much, I can suddenly turn off any type of notifications I want! 

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1 hour ago, Kimmaz said:

I scrolled down to see the list of notifications and held down on the one from sun news. I got a menu similar to in your picture with a sliding blue thing I could use to turn off notifications!! Thank you so much, I can suddenly turn off any type of notifications I want! 

Awesome! You're welcome. 😄 

 

By the way, do you know what Android version your S6 is rocking?

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1 hour ago, aDoomGuy said:

Awesome! You're welcome. 😄 

 

By the way, do you know what Android version your S6 is rocking?

It has Android version 8.0.0 and Samsung experience version 9.0.. Android Security patch level: 1 September 2020. (all found under About phone->software information.)

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You're on the same software as I am, I'm just one number difference on the device model.  I would still have an older phone if I didn't take it for a swim.

 

It still worked but I didn't know how to dry out the screen (just leave in the sun) so I got a different device.  Software still works fine and allows me to use the available software of my choosing.  Why upgrade?

: JRE #1914 Siddarth Kara

How bad is e-waste?  Listen to that Joe Rogan episode.

 

"Now you get what you want, but do you want more?
- Bob Marley, Rastaman Vibration album 1976

 

Windows 11 will just force business to "recycle" "obscolete" hardware.  Microsoft definitely isn't bothered by this at all, and seems to want hardware produced just a few years ago to be considered obsolete.  They have also not shown any interest nor has any other company in a similar financial position, to help increase tech recycling whatsoever.  Windows 12 might be cloud-based and be a monthly or yearly fee.

 

Software suggestions


Just get f.lux [Link removed due to forum rules] so your screen isn't bright white at night, a golden orange in place of stark 6500K bluish white.

released in 2008 and still being improved.

 

Dark Reader addon for webpages.  Pick any color you want for both background and text (background and foreground page elements).  Enable the preview mode on desktop for Firefox and Chrome addon, by clicking the dark reader addon settings, Choose dev tools amd click preview mode.

 

NoScript or EFF's privacy badger addons can block many scripts and websites that would load and track you, possibly halving page load time!

 

F-droid is a place to install open-source software for android, Antennapod, RethinkDNS, Fennec which is Firefox with about:config, lots of performance and other changes available, mozilla KB has a huge database of what most of the settings do.  Most software in the repository only requires Android 5 and 6!

 

I recommend firewall apps (blocks apps) and dns filters (redirect all dns requests on android, to your choice of dns, even if overridden).  RethinkDNS is my pick and I set it to use pi-hole, installed inside Ubuntu/Debian, which is inside Virtualbox, until I go to a website, nothing at all connects to any other server.  I also use NextDNS.io to do the same when away from home wi-fi or even cellular!  I can even tether from cellular to any device sharing via wi-fi, and block anything with dns set to NextDNS, regardless if the device allows changing dns.  This style of network filtration is being overridden by software updates on some devices, forcing a backup dns provuder, such as google dns, when built in dns requests are not connecting.  Without a complete firewall setup, dns redirection itself is no longer always effective.

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