Once again, smartphone users are being harassed with pop-up advertisements when they click on a link via the Facebook app!

And again we receive dozens of inquiries about pop-up advertising that creeps into smartphones when using Facebook. Various advertising windows (pop-ups) that are located exactly ABOVE an article on a website and therefore do not allow you to read or interact with the article. Annoyed, you end up looking for an “X” or the “Close button” – in vain.

This is what these nasty advertisements that are displayed on various websites look like. However, the operator of the respective website has nothing to do with this type of advertising and is just as annoyed as the reader himself.

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The only option is to close the app. In the worst case scenario, the cell phone may even have to be restarted.

Since this problem has been known for a long time, we can show you a solution that has already worked for many users.

Disable the “In App Browser”…

…from Facebook. Facebook always opens referrals/links within its own app.

  1. To do this, open the Facebook app on your phone.
  2. Open the app's settings using the three-bar icon in the top menu bar.
  3. Scroll down to “ App Settings ”.
  4. Here you will now find the point “ Links are opened externally ”. Activate the option to external links via the Facebook app as usual with your favorite Android browser.

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You should also follow the following steps:

  1. To be on the safe side, you should generally have so-called value-added services blocked by your cell phone provider, because you can never be sure that such advertising banners/apps will not become active in the background.
  2. We also strongly recommend a third-party block
  3. Delete the “history” and “saved website content” as well as the “cookies” directly in the browser.
  4. Consider an antivirus app.


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