[skstrials]

I think it is absurd that there are still ads in BBM on BlackBerry android phones.

If we paid for the hardware, then BlackBerry services should be included without ads.

[jaydee5799]

i think it is crazy too....

[Ment]

BBM is not controlled by BB anymore at least where ads are concerned. Perhaps suggest to the Indonesian company who has the license that you'd be willing to pay them a $1 a month to make it ad free.

[MPG Vancouver]

I think it is absurd that there are still ads in BBM on BlackBerry android phones.

If we paid for the hardware, then BlackBerry services should be included without ads.

Agreed. And BB branded phones should also include a free license for BBM Enterprise.

[conite]

But BlackBerry has licenced BBM to another company. That other company has no special relationship to BlackBerry Android customers.

[coffee-turtle]

And BBM on BB10 not getting ads, but also not getting same features as BBM on Android/iphone. * ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I like my coffee  BlackBerry® black! What?

[crackbb10]

Agree. I'm scared for the switch :lol:

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[dpw09]

I think it is absurd that there are still ads in BBM on BlackBerry android phones.

If we paid for the hardware, then BlackBerry services should be included without ads.

Ads don't bother me nearly as much as the spam invites. At least 2/day

[PHughes]

I agree. My wife and I use it extensively, but now I am weaning myself off of it because of all the sponsored ads. If they didn't show up as a chat and give a notification, it wouldn't be so bad. This week while I'm away, we've been using Line. She uses it anyway. I'm using the lite version and it has been great. I think I'm done with BBM.

[elfuzz]

I think i'd like the option of being able to purchase the ad free subscription for someone else. its hard to ask someone to use it and force the ads on them

[Randy Finlay]

I agree....i stopped using BBM because I got sick and tired of filtering thru all the adds

[Randal Yandal]

Bigger issue here is there are WAAAAY to many ads on BBM.

[yvpan1]

Where is the dark theme option for BBM? We need it soon!

[Shakespeare_10]

Ads don't bother me nearly as much as the spam invites. At least 2/day

I'm with you on tha dpw09t, I hate the spam invites. Is there anyway to do anything to do about that?

[dpw09]

I'm with you on tha dpw09t, I hate the spam invites. Is there anyway to do anything to do about that?

Supposedly turning on force question to invite in settings. But that doesn't work either

[Shakespeare_10]

Yeah just constant maintenance to delete and block.

[dpw09]

Yeah just constant maintenance to delete and block.

BBM working on remedy for spam invites https://www.crackberry.com/bbm-worki...y-spam-invites

[JSmith422]

Does this only affect android phones? Haven't seen anything on bb10.

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[CharlieV]

No spam on Blackberry Messenger enterprise.

[dpw09]

No spam on Blackberry Messenger enterprise.

If there was spam in a paid product there would be hell to pay

[CharlieV]

If there was spam in a paid product there would be hell to pay

Indeed.

And for a free product, one might expect a little advertising.

But I have to agree that the spam, and the TYPE of spam I got on BBM non enterprise was astonishing and sometimes embarrassing.

I'm old enough to remember, very clearly, the Internet without any ads, pay walls, etc. I even remember dial up BBSs--with SysOps (a word my keyboard doesn't even recognize). Now, on my phone, the Internet is almost unusable. Pop up ads, scrolling ads, auto play video, pay walls... this is what happens. It is just exactly like what a drug dealer does. Gets you hooked, then charges you for the privilege. Really, every site or service that establishes a good following and real value is monetized. This is the way of the world and a well established pattern. So it is with BBM, at least under the auspices of its new owner.

I can't resist giving an even more extreme example. CBS All Access is CBS's streaming service. It is insulting to have to watch ads on a paid service. But then the news arrives that for even more money, I can remove the ads. Wow. That's balls.

[baspeed]

BBM on my Z30 has lost video chat. Can't even video chat between two BB10 phones.

[bhoqeem]

BBM on my Z30 has lost video chat. Can't even video chat between two BB10 phones.

Not so. My Passport SE can still have BBM video chat with my wife's Z10. All the holy three symbols are there.

[Roberto A Bonaldi]

Hi! What's happened to BBM is really sad. IMO, Signal is better than Line.