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This is "opt in"
For now.
Who's opting into being advertised at more
Everybody who uses Google and Samsung products.
LOL. New phone cases are going to have little privacy sliders to go over the cameras.
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I remind everyone that Google invested not once, but twice in this company, for a total of $350 million
Awesome. Stand on the big X and pull the lever, Samsung.
so i guess i'm going to hold on the the pixel 8 for as long as i can then......
Yeugh. This makes me feel sick.
who the fuck is going to buy anything that's endorsed by my ugly mug?
Well that sounds like techno fash rape
I have an ancient Samsung. Its going to die soon. I don't think I can get a pixel here. What are my options, coz I also hate apple?
Just get a mid-range Samsung device and remove the relevant apps and get a custom launcher.
Or get a Fairphone if you can afford it.
Doubling down on Fairphone, however I heard rumors that perhaps a new model will be announced this year, so maybe wait for that (if this is true of course).
You could also just buy a new Samsung but install a different OS on it, but I remember that there are some caveats with bootloader being left unlocked and Knox security getting in the way.
I am in a similar situation with my Samsung dying (even though its S22+, which is not that old) and looking through a ton of variants, didn't reach a conclusion yet though.
what a pile of fuck
Someone at Samsung submitted a user story only to troll, and it worked "I need you to drain my phone battery and data plan for ads when I dont even look at it"
I'm trying to think of something more fucked up, but I'm struggling, here.
Never heard of glance. It's an ai shopping tool? I couldn't make sense of it, but I didn't spend much time either.
Haven't Samsungs always been trash though? From a software perspective, I mean?
I've never owned one, but I've tried to troubleshoot a few for relatives, and always found their version of Android to be just cunty.
Yeah, always their own version of , used by 2 people per month but always running in background. I heard they feared to be thrown out of "Android" certificate program (no Play Store anymore).
Their launcher was always slow and laggy and a ressource hog and only got better, because hardware got better.
My last Samsung was to Kitkat times (Galaxy S3) but even then the whole boot chain was basically custom made (guess for knox) and you had to use their proprietary paid software to edit boot animations. And always needed a Samsung version.
Sadly, dad is Samsung fan because i have to disable half of preinstalled apps and replace with better alternatives, once he gets a new phone.
Basically, Samsung is good at hardware and bad at software.
I had the S3 and it was barely usable after some years. Threw... What was lineage before the switch? Cyanogen? ... on it and it ran like never before. Samsung software is dogshit.
Cyanogen!!
They used to push their own apps way too hard, and had a terrible UI. But it is a lot better these days. As is evident in this article they are still pieces of shit.
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