After a day in airplane mode; upon reconnecting to a network, four tabs in Chrome opened up to more malicious pages than there started out being (urgent "WARNING there might be a problem" pages), opened Developer Options> Running Services found three or four running Peel services and processes, stopped them and uninstalled (disabled) Peel. It's been three days and I haven't had another instance since then.
For a long while I got along just fine never updating Peel (updates were invasive long ago) and just using the widget to control TV and audio. But they've found a way to be more invasive without updating their app.
Here are some other links talking about this issue.
In Japanese, but points to Peel as the culprit:
https://www.ryuzoji.com/archives/2199#Describes an identical tough-to-track issue dealing with appsquare/novelcamp:
https://tehnoblog.org/how-to-fix-android-appsquare-net-novelcamp-net-malware-chrome-browser-hijack/Good luck! 👍🏼
Interesting i had peel on my phone. Had for months no issue. Was one of the apps i uninstalled thank god.