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PlayStation 5 owners are reporting advertisements on the device’s home screen. Frustratingly, the ads seem to be rather difficult to disable, and some are also outdated ads and/or confusing content.
The ads, visible on users' home screens when they hover over a game title, can only be removed if you disconnect from the Internet,
IGN
reported today. However, that would block a lot of the console’s functionality. The PS5 dashboard previously had ads but not on the home screen.
Before this recent development, people would see game art if they hovered over a game icon on the PS5’s home screen. Now, doing so reportedly brings up dated advertisements. For example, IGN reported seeing
an ad for
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
“coming soon exclusively in cinemas” when hovering over the
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
game. Webheads will of course recall that the Spider-Verse movie came out in June 2023.