Pop Up Ads on My GPS ???

You posted this 2 months ago and posting again? My Dezl 770 has Foursquare which might be doing that. Do you have Trip Advisor on your unit? Check and see if it is on your Garmin and active. Other thing might be pairing via bluetooth with your phone.

I did post this a few months ago but over that time, none of the suggestions, including unpairing with my smartphone, made any difference.

I was hoping someone else noticed this also and perhaps found a cure. So far, it's only the RV890 that displays these ads. If this is the only unit affected, I'll sell it and try another GPSr. I just want to be sure it isn't a common problem involving other units.

First, call Garmin and see if they can help. Their telephone help is pretty good.
Second, try a factory reset and be ready to reload all your favorites, settings, POIs.

This is nothing new. It's been reported in other forums for over a decade:

https://forums.bmwmoa.org/threads/garmin-with-ads.57482/

https://www.thehulltruth.com/marine-electronics-forum/212823...

It appears these ads are associated with free map updates and they placed in the map database by Garmin. The GPSr has nothing to do with it.

It's funny others haven't noticed it during all this time. It may be that we've just not travelled in areas where businesses are paying to advertise?

but you may be seeing the results of the "up ahead" so-called feature. Try turning it off. See p. 27 in your manual.

Thanks for the tip but I already tried disabling it with no luck.

Apparently, these ads reside on the map and, depending on where you travel, they can be few and far between. Unfortunately, there are several in my area that pop up every time I navigate a local route.

From what I found on the net, most GPSr's, regardless of age, will display these ads after map updates.

Just another reason to switch to vehicle nav systems and Google maps I guess.

Sad to hear Garmin (or the mapping company) has yielded to slipping advertisements into its products. Seems to be a growing trend.

I have several Garmin GPS units (3597, DS65, DS76) and I drive all around Southern California and never seen an ad.

Can you enable the screenshot function and take a screenshot when it happens and show us? It's very strange that a high-end, expensive unit like the RV890 is showing ads.

A long time ago, there use to be ads on GPS units because of the free lifetime Navteq traffic subscription. These ads pay for the traffic subscription and were not related to map updates. A Garmin rep confirms this in the first link that you provided, but that discussion was over a decade ago.

Nowadays the traffic info comes from a variety of sources https://www.garmin.com/en-IE/traffic/ and there is no subscription. It's free. You get it through the Drive app via your smartphone or through an FM traffic receiver. Although I've found the range of the Drive traffic data is really small for some reason, like a 10 mile radius at best.

...on Google Maps. I've never seen them on any GPS I own or have owned, which is quite a few.