Not sure if it is like that because I’m in Korea, but on my Samsung S9 Samsung is injecting ads for their new S24 in my notifications. I’ve had the phone for 5 years and this is the first time I see ads in my phone notifications, unbelievable.

  • @[email protected]
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    625 months ago

    Samsung pushed an app in an update that plastered ads for charities all over my lock screen. Disabled that shit and my next phone isn’t going to be a Samsung.

    • @[email protected]
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      95 months ago

      Disabled that shit and my next phone isn’t going to be a Samsung.

      You won’t be able to disable that sort of things in most other phones, though. It’s not like China crap won’t push ads and Samsung has second best Android support after Fairphone.

      • Zuberi 👀
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        285 months ago

        You won’t be able to disable that sort of things in most other phones, though.

        LOL. You tryna sell me a Samsung at a 100% discount? Because I’d still maybe need you to cover shipping fees on that if that’s okay? Not tryna pay more than $0 to get spied on.

        • @[email protected]
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          115 months ago

          Samsungs hardware is pretty nice, but only when its running LineageOS or similar. Man their ux is awful.

          • @[email protected]
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            45 months ago

            OneUI UX is way superior to Lineage. Specially the newer OneUI 6. Lineage abuses tiles and toggles and it’s just ugly as sin overall.

          • @[email protected]
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            35 months ago

            Man their ux is awful.

            Samsung pioneered a UX on big screens that works with only one thumb. It took Google a while to adapt that to upstream Android. Ports of OneUI to community ROMs are quite popular on XDA Developers.

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          How about pixel?

          The only brand other than Galaxy I recommend to normies. For idealists there’s also Fairphone but that’s also not available everywhere.