Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.
Oh good, another reason not to buy Samsung anything. I already just didn’t like their UI.
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Was it apple? I just heard about them last week but they seem expensive
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That’s crazy.
Anyways I’m gonna pitch never buying a Samsung phone again to the HR people if this comes true.
what a pile of fuck
What??
Buddy had the nightmarish idea a while back with all the new generative ai stuff for video chat services injecting ads using the faces/voices of the participants in lieu of payment. Just, regularly-schedule ad breaks in your call where “your friend” suddenly starts talking about how excited they are about Raid: Shadow Legends
Or the other way around.
Remember those atrocious sexist Axe body spray ads where men get rejected by women until they shower themselves with deodorant? Imagine that but with your own face. And the face of your crush as the women rejecting you because the algorithm knows anyways.
Delightfully devilish…
Black Mirror with Rashida Jones
Oh wild, good call
Lol who downvoted you but not me?
Lol, I want to believe it was someone who wanted to slow the spread of this concept in the world, lashing out against it the only way they could.
That said I’ve def bookmarked that episode for watching. I lost track of Black MIrror, it’s a bit tough in that it’s so grim that each episode doesn’t really leave you wanting to watch the next one in my experience. But it’s had some bangers.
That one is particularly rage inducing if it’s the one I’m thinking of (I think ep 1 of the new season?).
Some of the others in the new season aren’t so depressing or rage inducing, though.
After having watched it (it was good, watched it with the buddy who had the idea and without telling him why we were watching it, he had a laugh the first time it happened), if you found it a real struggle, definitely don’t read this article about a real company that made a brain implant for epileptics and went under of which the episode heavily reminded me.
Jesus. Delet this.
Too late, Black Mirror already has an episode about this exact idea (starring Rashida Jones).
Minority Report, the bad parts.
Edit: glad I’m using a deGoogled Android phone, can’t trust manufacturers not to enshitificate.
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Not even useful IMO, just idiots.
Awesome. Stand on the big X and pull the lever, Samsung.
This is “opt in”
For now.
Who’s opting into being advertised at more
Everybody who uses Google and Samsung products.
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.
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”
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.
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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It’s hard, without UEFI for arm
7 years? Most folks here get one every 2
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.
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.
Why would anyone opt in 😭
Is this just so they can wait a few months and say, “Not enough people were discovering this Great Feature, so we’re enabling it by default”?
I’ve already been getting the itch to leave Samsung and try something different. I’m keeping my eye on the upcoming Nothing Phone 3, if it’s genuinely a “flagship” for £800 I might jump ship.
I know a bunch of folks who will opt in because their thought process regarding technology is pretty much “new = good.”
Why would anyone opt in 😭
Because the checkbox will be checked by default, and most people just speedrun through the setup as if it was a competition
Pixel is a decent alternative, and de-googled pixel is even better yet.
The main issue with the Pixel is that there is still going money to Google
Not if you buy second hand, though!
I tried a Samsung phone a year or two ago. It lasted less than a day before I was so infuriated that I vowed never to use Samsung again. It is SO invasive and pushes so many ads and bloatware.
Samsung bricked by first Android because of an Android update, my friends who bought the same phone two weeks later had no issues …
