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I can't turn off search suggestions

stewartjk1
stewartjk1
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Happy New Year! My search bar on my continues to suggest sites, even though I have turned them off in the Settings. So, if I type "sl" in the search bar, it will show me slickdeals.net. I have no desire to ever visit this site and I don't want to continually see these my search bar! I'm hoping this is just a glitch and will get fixed?

Please don't suggest turning off suggestions - as I mentioned, I've already done it. This only happens on my new Galaxy S7, never happens on my old S5 I use for work, so maybe it's just a problem in the new version.

Happy New Year! My search bar on my continues to suggest sites, even though I have turned them off in the Settings. So, if I type "sl" in the search bar, it will show me slickdeals.net. I have no desire to ever visit this site and I don't want to continually see these my search bar! I'm hoping this is just a glitch and will get fixed? Please don't suggest turning off suggestions - as I mentioned, I've already done it. This only happens on my new Galaxy S7, never happens on my old S5 I use for work, so maybe it's just a problem in the new version.
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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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For some reason, that is one of the built-in "popular domain" matches:

https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/source/mobile/android/base/resources/raw/topdomains.txt

Good news: it isn't from a search engine. Bad news: I am not aware of a way to stop it.