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.
Thatβs 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.
Bro you're doing good, only 9993 steps to go
At 11am. What a life.
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.
I'll literally never buy a Samsung phone again if these fuckers push ads to my device.
I'm desperately trying to find a new phone that isn't a Samsung. I switched by force from LG to Samsung and even though the Samsung was 3 years newer, it was a downgrade.
It pushes so many notifications I have given up. I'm going to have to spend $1400 on a Sony just to retain my SD card slot and get rid of the bloatware.
Since starting my hunt, my garbage s20 is pushing so many s24 ads. Guess how many phones have an SD card slot and a FHD+ screen?
Nine. 4 of them are made by Sony.
Edit: I forgot to mention that my samsung phone also gave me a notification Ad for the S24. I didn't think to screenshot it because my notifications are so aggressive that I have become brain dead to this bullshit. I can clear a wall of 15 and within 3 minutes have another wall of 10.
The fairphone 5 has an SD slot, oled FHD and replaceable battery to boot
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
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
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
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.
Yeah, South Korea is awful. I don't mean the people. They are getting the brunt of it, in fact.
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
You sure this is coming from Samsung and not from a malicious app you have?
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.
Is there a phone manufacturer that doesn't use their devices to shove more ads in your face? Google pushing Google One or Apple's preinstallwd watch app also come to mind
Awful... Should be illegal.
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
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.
If you don't want/can't flash a custom rom: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=samsung+adb+debloat
but better search for a list for your modell and first disable before uninstall. Maybe need to install some main Apps first, like a launcher, use adb install app.apk otherwise.
Not justifying this in any way but the S9 hasn't received security updates in ages. It's the phone equivalent to still running Windows XP, it's a major security risk. You should upgrade to some newer phone. Personally I like the Pixels since you can run GrapheneOS which definitely doesn't have any ads and the newest models get updates for 7 years.
I just use adguard's DNS in my VPN on my phone.
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