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