What I think of as the “homescreen” (no idea what Sony calls it) is the place where my active games show up. The first place I see when I log in. If I put a new game disk in, it shows up there. Whatever that is called. They added a first-class object there that showed “Spider-Man 2”, so it looked as if I had installed a new game. My kids got excited because they thought I had installed a Spider-Man game on their PS4. No idea whether it was a demo or a trailer or what, because I don’t click on ads if I can avoid it.
You may have missed it, or you may be in a demographic where you didn’t get it. I have had the other Spider-Man titles installed on both devices, now that I think about it. So perhaps they only advertised it to previous purchasers of Spider-Man titles. It was present on a PS4 as recently as this morning and a PS5 earlier in the week. I’m not sure when it went away, but it’s not on either PS5 now.
Thanks! I’ll go do that. “Featured Content” sure tries hard to pretend it’s not an advertisement. I shouldn’t have to opt out to avoid homescreen ads on a platform I paid for and pay to subscribe to as well. It’s way too intrusive.
What I think of as the “homescreen” (no idea what Sony calls it) is the place where my active games show up. The first place I see when I log in. If I put a new game disk in, it shows up there. Whatever that is called. They added a first-class object there that showed “Spider-Man 2”, so it looked as if I had installed a new game. My kids got excited because they thought I had installed a Spider-Man game on their PS4. No idea whether it was a demo or a trailer or what, because I don’t click on ads if I can avoid it.
You may have missed it, or you may be in a demographic where you didn’t get it. I have had the other Spider-Man titles installed on both devices, now that I think about it. So perhaps they only advertised it to previous purchasers of Spider-Man titles. It was present on a PS4 as recently as this morning and a PS5 earlier in the week. I’m not sure when it went away, but it’s not on either PS5 now.
You can disable that by going to settings > system > automatic downloads and unchecking “Featured Content”.
Thanks! I’ll go do that. “Featured Content” sure tries hard to pretend it’s not an advertisement. I shouldn’t have to opt out to avoid homescreen ads on a platform I paid for and pay to subscribe to as well. It’s way too intrusive.
That’s so sneaky. I don’t see that stuff since I opted out of most marketing and ads but I’m pretty annoyed to hear they’d do something like that.
This must be a setting they added in an update, since I’d never opt-in. I hate ads with a passion.