Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.
these kind of creepy stuff make me more glad I’m on iPhone.
Oh sweet summer child
Apple is also joining the ‘AI’ game. They have been bragging about all their ‘AI’ garbage in their new phones. That is specifically why I just got rid of my iPhone. I’m happy with GrapheneOS where they don’t want my info, and have shown no signs of wanting to shove ‘AI’ into any of my things.
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 <popular google app>, 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 <fancy hack> 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.
They have always had good hardware I think, but their firmware and apps went total shit years ago. I liked their old ones like the S5 and S4 that had notification LEDs and unlockable bootloaders for custom ROMs
Yeugh. This makes me feel sick.
Thankfully, this is a fully opt-in experience.
And how long before they decide to make a default instead of opt-in?
opt-in:
Can we take all your stuff?
- Yes daddy
- Remind me tomorrow
Ah, more ads. Exactly what the consumer asked for, right?
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LOL. New phone cases are going to have little privacy sliders to go over the cameras.
That’s… A really good idea
Time to redesign my phone case
Other bloat on the list of stuff to remove using ADB
I think you need a rooted phone to remove stuff,
adbalone won’t cut it.I sold my S23 Ultra last September and adb did suffice indeed
Can you uninstall youtube or another “system” app with
adbalone?I’ve always done it
Is there any other brands that make phones with pen support, and doesn’t drop support for their phones the moment they come up with a design with a slightly upgraded chip?
I was just sitting there looking at the cool art I have as a lockscreen wallpaper and im thinking, man I wish my phone would scan my face and place an ai slop image with my face badly right on my lock screen. Thank god Samsung is so in touch with what features consumers want added to their $1000 devices.
Well that sounds like techno fash rape
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.
This is what makes me excited for Linux phones to finally become viable. Every major phone manufacturer is making their UX worse and expanding their hidden spyware for the sake of profits.
Graphene os is great but you can only install it on a Pixel. But they give extended support for older devices which is nice. HOWEVER, people are making Linux builds for even older devices, including the iphone 6. Getting a new phone after 7 years might not be necessary in the future.
It’s hard, without UEFI for arm
7 years? Most folks here get one every 2
It used to be that phone technology improved relatively quickly, and a 2 year old phone was significantly worse than the latest and greatest. Now, not so much. I use a Pixel 6 Pro running Graphene OS, and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on the latest tech. The camera is great, certainly more than good enough for me, and the phone is responsive and does everything I need it to do, and it’s 3+ generations old. I see no need to spend $1000+ on a new phone.
And that’s their choice to. But some people are sick of planned obsolescence and wish to use their phones for as long as the hardware doesn’t give.
I can’t wait to get a Linux phone.
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Do Orbic devices* run anything aside from stock android?
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I hate everything about this title.
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Was it apple? I just heard about them last week but they seem expensive
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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”
