Update to T-Mobile’s My Account app brings ads to the Android notification area

All the major carriers have smartphone apps for managing your account, and they’re generally boring but useful tools for checking your balance or paying your bill. However, a recent update to the T-Mobile My Account app for Android has added advertisements into Android notification area. A number of users have taken to T-Mobile’s forums and the app’s page in the Google Play store to complain about these ads, though its worth noting that they appear to be for T-Mobile promotions only — there’s no evidence yet that T-Mobile is selling out the space in your notification bar to third-party companies. Of course, T-Mobile is far from the first to do this — plenty of game publishers (like EA) sneak ads into the iOS Notification Center if users allow notifications for that app. Nonetheless, this sounds like a great annoyance — the notification bar can get cluttered enough with legit alerts without having T-Mobile dropping in unnecessary ads.