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.
Samsung has gone full HP since about 5-10 years ago. They used to have awesome products, now it’s just bloatware crap riding on customer goodwill that they built up over decades
Which products do you have?
remember the s5? ir blaster, waterproof, headphone jack, removable battery, lots of custom roms
now look at their recent devices
Ir blaster was a gimmick. S24 is IP68 rated. Really nice usb headphones are easy to come by if you don’t like Bluetooth. Show me a waterproof phone with a battery the average end user can replace.
Sounds like you just want to moan.
I had the S3, it was an awesome phone.
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 really like Samsung phones, but oh boy, they are so bloated on default install it’s unbearable. When I got my Samsung Galaxy A52, there were like 10 different things that wanted my attention on first boot, and I uninstalled most uninstallable Samsung apps straight away.
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Agreed. I’m no cultural expert, but it really does seem like they put our oligarchy to shame with their level of roughshod running.
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That’s not new, they have been doing this for a while now. 1st noticed when the S10 series was launched.
Glad I bought a cheaper and older phone then. I don’t have this fortunately
It’s so incredibly easy to disable, I’m not sure how people are justifying their phone choice based on the apps they have installed. It’s not part of the OS.
It’s easy to disable for now lol, the enshittification doesn’t stop here
Samsung devices have become very ad-heavy. My first smart phone was a Galaxy S3 and I used to prefer their TVs, but forcing ads into everything has guaranteed I’ll never buy another Samsung phone or TV again.
My first samsung was wonderful and lasted me quite some time, my second one was asking me to add so many apps and accept so many permissions that I regret buying it. I don’t want to create waste by throwing it out but…
Wait, is Samsung the new Xiaomi?
Always has been.
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I’ve been using the Galaxy A52s for a couple of years now. Never seen ads outside the Samsung apps. SEA region.
SEA? As in Seattle?
Samsung peaked at the S7
The S8 is pretty nice, but only the Exynos variant. I hated the glass back, though. Shattered mine two times, one time the phone just fell 30 centimeters out of bed. Gorilla Glass only in the front was a deliberate decision by these bastards.
I thought the Exynos variant was the worst one.
It’s the good one. As far as I know, Exynos phones are much faster than the Snapdragon variants. Custom ROMs like LineageOS are only available for Exynos phones, so those are the only ones still getting updates.
That’s not what I’ve heard for Exynos. I heard exynos was too hot, too underpowered, and the snapdragon variant was better. Now I’m not here to debate, but is very interesting how we’ve heard two different sides to the story.
I used an Exynos S8 up to December of last year and it’s still blazingly fast. And the consensus on xdaforums seems to be that the Qualcomm variant from the US is terrible. :) Weird, but maybe I’m wrong and I just got used to a slow device. I mean, I had a Sony Xperia XA2 before and that thing was so slow, everything else felt like The Flash. :D
I believe all phones are fast enough for our usage (at least in the beginning), but I’m not here to disagree. There have been some instances where the Snapdragon variants have been awful (the 810/808 come to mind), but I’ve heard more stuff about the exynos than I have the snapdragon. Just searching about “exynos worse than snapdragon,” autocomplete in my web search had an option to change it to “why is exynos so bad.” Although it is about the experience more than the reports online, and I’m not disagreeing with you as you’ve personally used the exynos chip(s).
Ugh I hate those ads. I had a OnePlus for a few years and forgot about all the bloat you get with a Samsung phone. Recently decided to go for a Samsung phone as the other options didn’t seem much better. But now I keep getting ads from Google and Samsung in my notifications. I THINK I managed to disable some of it but it still keeps popping up once in a while.
Universal Android Debloater baby
Thanks for the tip! Checking it out right now. Does it also work if my mobile carrier isn’t on the list?
Lol at anybody using that bloat/spyware of a phone in 2023 :/
you posted this on 2024-01-25…
It’s 2024 just FYI.
U lazy. U more walk. U no get ads anymore. Samsung just discipline u.
I haven’t seen that on my S10e; my carrier texts me about twice a year wanting me to upgrade because of course.
Hello fellow s10e enjoyer.
Perfectly cromulent phone; I don’t want a new one, I want them to keep supporting this one.
Trash company, throw it on the pile with all the other ad companies.
I’m happy that I never connected my TV to the internet.
Maybe it’s because I don’t have a flagship Samsung model, but I’m lucky enough not to get ads for their products in my notifications. That, or it’s because my service provider doesn’t want Samsung advertising new phones, which is a very fat chance that’s true.
It’s a setting. I believe it’s under security and privacy. Mines been off since forever, but I’m not sure if I turned it off right away or if it came like that.
you consented to them while setting up the phone.
also prompt to enable them is only present in the us and korea.
