It's already a truism that it seems impossible to "escape advertising," with commercial invading more and more portions of our lives. Now ads are invading Android notification bars.
Japan's second largest cellphone carrier, KDDI, is being
raked over the coals by end users for displaying advertising on Android's notification bar.
The Japanese carrier bundles the alternative Android marketplace "au one Market" on many of its Android handsets. A recent update to the third party app gives it the ability to send ads to users as push notifications.
Naturally, it's part of the ROM, and can't be uninstalled. We wonder, however, if the ability of Ice Cream Sandwich to disable system apps could be the solution to this horrible development.
Let's hope this sort of tomfoolery never comes to a U.S. carrier.
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