Welcome hub, a new personalized space with customizable widgets and backgrounds for the PS5 home screen that Sony rolled out earlier this month as part of an update that introduced several additional features for PlayStation 5 consoles, including Party Share, personalized 3D audio profiles, and adaptive controller charging, has been partially ruined by what some players are claiming to be full-screen ads, according to the latest complaints shared on social media. Defenders of Sony say that these aren’t actually ads, just harmless news stories, while others claim that this isn’t the case, with one asking why review scores for FFVII REBIRTH are being shown when hovering over FFVII REMAKE.
One complaint reads:
- “So it turns out that the recent PS5 UI update that let you disable all the advertisements on the dashboard was too good to be true.”
- “Now EVERY SINGLE GAME on your homescreen shows you an advertisement in the background with no way to remove them lol.”
The original word from @alfredobofa, which shows several of the “ads”:
So it turns out that the recent PS5 UI update that let you disable all the advertisements on the dashboard was too good to be true. Now EVERY SINGLE GAME on your homescreen shows you an advertisement in the background with no way to remove them lol https://t.co/Nts6eCq8Eb pic.twitter.com/29p56mYn34
— Earl Turlet (@alfredobofa) September 29, 2024
Sony’s Hiromi Wakai said of the new PS5 Welcome hub in early September:
You can easily customize your Welcome hub by selecting from a variety of widgets, including console storage, battery levels for accessories, online friends, trophies, and many more. Use presets to quickly change your layout, and simply select and arrange a variety of widgets as you see fit. You can change the size of your widgets, expanding or shrinking them to give more focus to the features that are most important to you.
In addition, you can also change your Welcome hub’s background. Choose from a range of designs, including some with cool animated effects, or pick out a screenshot from your own Media Gallery for a truly personal touch.
Discussion (7 replies)
Join Discussion →I first heard about this from a PS5-owning friends. He and others have started leaving their PS5s offline. Another good job being an @sshat Sony.
Just wait until this BS starts with you cars automotive screen =)
Oh man... that will probably get me into automotive hacking.
About time Sony caught up to Microsoft in this regard
does pihole drop the ads?
Edit - if there was ever anything I wanted out of AI, it's AI for pihole to identify and drop more ads.
Yes I agree. Trying to figure out what hostname got past my pi-hole with their useless garbage takes too much time. lol
Like recently, I still haven't been able to figure this out.
But I don't pay for Windows 10. I know, I know. Sue me. It's free and "strips" away some features I don't want anyway. One of those features was a customizable desktop background. It's all grey out. No problem, I like the solid color anyway. Except, recently. Something happened and now it's using that garbage Windows spotlight for my background which used to be grey out and not selectable. Now it's greyed out and stuck on that setting. I can't remove it.
I also block ALL of Microsoft's servers because their updates break everything running Windows. I only let them in when I am ready to tend to the hosts that are updating so I can fix the problems. But somehow, whatever URL/Domain/Hostname is sending these periodic updates is really pissing me off. I haven't been able to block them.
Neither do I. I use a KMS emulator to bypass activation.
EDIT: Well, on all machines except my main. I used my Win7 Ultimate key to activate Win10 on my previous main desktop, and on my current main desktop.
Smart plan.