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.
That’s really good anti-advertising.
Pretty much. How to guarantee I will never buy your brand ever again. Not that I would ever buy a Samsung anyway. Or anything preloaded with Facebook for that matter.
I think you haven’t seen how notification bar of a typical android user over 40 looks like. It’s usually 3 meters of random application bloat, music/movie/audiobook ads and three different weather widgets.
Digital hygiene is something only a very small percentage of users follow, so such ad might as well work while surrounded by 5 other ads
Bro you’re doing good, only 9993 steps to go
At 11am. What a life.
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Wait, is Samsung the new Xiaomi?
Always has been.
🌎🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
Xiaomi is still much better than Samsung
I think that’s some app. Maybe one from Samsung, but it’s not the OS itself. OP probably unknowingly opted in to something. I have two S10e and never had an ad in the notifications. I don’t have a Samsung account. Could be related. … or it’s really a regional thing.
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The Hero we need.
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.
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.
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.
Samsungs hardware is pretty nice, but only when its running LineageOS or similar. Man their ux is awful.
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.
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.
How about pixel?
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.
normies
😞. People actually talk like this.
I like Android but man Samsung’s version has always sucked
And they wonder why they can’t compete with the iPhone
And they wonder why they can’t compete with the iPhone
Samsung is ahead of Apple in almost every market.
Their hardware has been, with few exceptions, very nice. It’s sad to see they’re embracing the enshittification with such gusto on the software side… I mean, it was always bloated, even when they made BREW phones, but this is a whole nuther level.
They’ve also embraced it on the hardware side removing sd cards and headphonejacks
100% agree, though since I bought my pixel with a headphone jack I haven’t wanted to use it once in the 2 years that I’ve had the phone so… 🤷
I honestly thought I would use it one or need it a lot more frequently.
Apple over took Samsung in sales in 2023
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-overtakes-samsung-top-seller-smartphones-2024-01-17/
So? Worldwide sales obviously include countries like the US. I made clear with my comment that I didn’t mean worldwide sales.
Except for the profit margins, lol.
Are you an investor? Who gives a fuck?
Well the companies specifically. If we’re talking about two companies competing with each other it’s in what they’re trying to achieve.
Literally not true. They lost ground last year.
Not defending Apple. But fighting misinformation.
I was talking about most individual markets, not worldwide combined market share. There’s a difference and no amount of down voting changes that.
Perhaps you should have been clearer then, as evidently many people are not seeing it that way.
Perhaps that’s why you’re being downvoted. As if you care about those anyway, it isn’t really a measure we should use.
Take care!
I wrote “in almost every market” which is as clear as it can be. I’m being downvoted because die hard Samsung haters see red immediately and don’t care about facts.
Dude you have no idea why people are downvoting you and I don’t want to get involved in a conjecture based debate.
All I can say is what I know and honestly I don’t give a shit what phone you use. Or toilet paper or porn site. You do you my guy.
my previous samsung TV plastered a huge Doom Eternal AD into my settings panel…
my new samsung TV is not connected to the net, lol.
My PLex, Yotutube, Netflix goes through my NVidia shield.
TV comes from a box through a HDMI cable.
and Playstation is playstation.
0 need to connect that shit to the net
Samsung Smart TV owner here. Connected to Internet for steam link and found out app is no longer available to download.
I realized then my fast input section at the home screen was replaced with TV apps and In order to change inputs, I had to go to another sub category of “connected devices” nstead of being able to do it from home with the shortcuts
I reset the TV, connected to the Internet but did NOT agree to smart hub this time… Now my quick input selection is back
It’s awful that it got changed like that, was there no setting at all to change it back?
Not that I can see…once you opt into smart hub it takes over the home page… I wasn’t going to bother fucking with it. I was also pissed steam link was removed…my only reason for downloading apps on my previous samsung tv
I have my TV on a VLAN that doesn’t have internet access. I don’t want it to be able to access the internet, but still want to be able to control it using Home Assistant.
And that’s why you only buy phones where you can install a custom ROM, and then kick any poisonous bloatware and google shit off before starting to use it.
Edit2: I learned about GSI roms and DSU Sideloading is a thing https://github.com/VegaBobo/DSU-Sideloader
Yeah unfortunately that Custom ROM scene is dying out, I see that plenty of older phones are still supported (e.g. Galaxy Note 3, Samsung S5, kind of all Xiaomis) but newer phones are just a handful of models which its bootloader can be unlocked, and then some of these have support for Magisk and TWRP but sadly no custom ROMs.
Edit: still the ability to root these and unbloat them is better than nothing.
it’s extremely ironic that pixels are some of the best phones for installing lineage on
And also Xiaomi phones. Indeed ironic
Yeah! Whatever he said!!
Yeah unfortunately that Custom ROM scene is dying out
I feel like recent Android has gotten good enough for me that I don’t really need custom ROMs anymore. As long as I can still root the stock ROM and install AdAway, I’m fine.
I feel that way with Stock iOS, how ironic…
*buy phones that you can own.
And that’s why you only buy phones where you can install a custom ROM
Info update request. What is the current/best/uptodate websites to go to in 2024 to see that list of devices?
Also to such a thing also exist for tablets?
Thanks in advance.
Check for LineageOS supported devices, that’s a good start. Some tablets can run ubuntu touch, I believe.
I experienced this on my Galaxy Tab A7 (in India), a few years ago. Using Universal Android Debloater got rid of this.
This is so weird, I don’t see ads anywher-
remembers that NextDNS is installed
Oh. Right.
I know this is completely unrelated, but I think I’d actually find it impossible to get to 11:50 in the day with only 7 steps. That’s a one way trip to the toilet…
Maybe they’re one of those weirdos that doesn’t bring their phone everywhere
Wake up at 11, swipe on your phone for an hour, finally get up and go to the toilet, pull out your phone again and take this screenshot. Voilà :)
Gonna have a rough time hitting that 10k goal
Hangover maybe?
On a thursday, no less x)
More likely that’s the only day they had off and Korea has a bit of a reputation for working people much too hard.
One way to make me consider a different brand then.
Samsung is like the Internet in the pop up ads days. Free yourself from that garbage.
You literally have four different fonts in one screenshot. At least use a weather app that is less horrendous to look at, like Breezy Weather if you insist on open source.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8f7d5fbb-8574-4019-9817-76131bb65536.png
That is an old screenshot. Besides, what does that have to do with Samsung pushing ads to its users?
You sure this is coming from Samsung and not from a malicious app you have?
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That’s the notification underneath.
Custom ROMs FTW… no, seriously, most samsung phones have support for at least some custom ROMs and GSIs so it might be worth it to take a look at the options available for your device
I have a OnePlus 9 pro and I love lineageos but the camera… The camera is just way better on stock :(
What about the camera? That’s the only real problem for me.
It’s alright, not as good as stock by default (unless you’re using ncx which is oneui but not sh!t) but there are ways to improve it (using a custom version of gcam)
… and again. Not the same.
Do not get me wrong. I used to love custom ROMs since the days of android 1.6.
But if I pay 500€ and more for a phone I would not risk to unlock the bootloader. For my specific device (Samsung A52s) the camera app does not even open if I unlock the bootloader using the stock ROM.
Unfortunately it is not feasible for every day use. Camera, payments, netflix…
For an old phone, yes. It’s a good idea.
My phone is an A52s 5G and I got it specifically because you can mod it to oblivion, this phone has a huge modding community atm. Most ROMs include a workaround for netflix and as I stated above, there are ways to make the camera just as good as stock (I haven’t bothered, as imo the custom ROM’s camera is good enough), and as for payments… Yeah, got nothing there, GWallet used to work but google has been actively fighting against it, so it doesn’t anymore. I, personally am more than willing to drop GWallet to use a custom ROM… The amount of customization, community support, no fcking ads in the quick access menu and the knowledge that it’s my phone, I choose what is installed on it and what isn’t and unlimited GPhotos storage via a trick that most custom ROMs use is just way too good to pass on…
E: Idk wym by “camera doesn’t open if I unlock the bootloader” seems to work fine for me on CrDroid (custom ROM). Amd my question is, why would you use the stock rom if you’ve already went through the effort of unlocking the bootloader, OneUI sucks…
Imo it’s a good idea on any phone. Period. It’s MY phone, I BOUGHT it, I get to choose how long it gets updates for, what is installed and what happens to it, NOT samsung or the ISP…
E2: You got seriously ripped off, if you paid 500 Euro for an A52S
spoiler
Also netflix 💀
Really? I haven’t checked the scene recently! Wow! I have some reading to do!
Thanks!
