Don't they know how ugly the common people are. I'm not gonna buy something with an ugly guy in the ad. We ain't all plastic surgery Korean like Samsung home base.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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Gross.
I'm currently in the process of moving everything over to a pixel running GrapheneOS and am glad to be doing so because of shit exactly like this.
I just want technology that does what I want it to and doesn't spy on me. Shouldn't be this hard especially if I pay for the product.
Donate to Graphene if you have the means.
Did the same thing last September, my S21 Ultra's battery was getting tired and I was tired of the Samsung bullshit. So far it's been great and so has battery life, plus it's a breath of fresh air to only have apps I want installed without needing ADB to remove them after Google/Samsung decides they want them reinstalled every few weeks.
Only downfalls have been my broken banking app (which might be the actual app being broken based on Google Play reviews) and the amount of tweaking I needed to do to get OSM as my default map for Android Auto.
I finally have a phone that actually feels like mine, not just a leased device from the manufacturer.
Same here man. Was using an s20 for a long time and was generally happy with it but after moving to an s22 due to charging issues, I wasn't happy with the way that Samsung changed things. I don't like how they often try to force a Samsung account.
And I REALLY don't like this. I should never have to look at baked in ads in my OS that I paid for. I don't care if its just on the lockscreen because you know that's only the beginning.
"Watch this 30 second ad to change your wallpaper"
No thanks dude.
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Whelp, I guess I now own my last Samsung phone. It was a good run. I've been considering going pixel for a while so I can put graphineOS on it. This just helps me make that decision.
Running GrapheneOS on a Pixel is incredibly easy. You don't need to be technical at all to get it set up. The instructions and the process are simple. Get on it!
I'm thick as mince and am running GrapheneOS, AND I came from 16 years of iPhones.
If I can do it, anyone can.
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who the fuck asked for this
Samsung's board of directors. Of which half are probably using iPhones.
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I weep for my newborn, whose reality will be marred by so much fakeness
Absolutely wild clown show we're living in
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.
I remind everyone that Google invested not once, but twice in this company, for a total of $350 million
Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C'mon, juuuust a little.. 'till you no longer notice.
This is excellent.
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Glance says it will retain the biometric data used to create your digital avatar for 12 months from your last interaction with the service or until you manually delete your account. The company claims that your images won't be used for any other purpose or shared with third parties without your consent.
Thousands of pictures of regular people's faces, not just professional models, is valuable data. They're definitely selling that shit or using it for their own AI training.
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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.
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"
The moment I see myself in an ad, I'm giving up on technology and joining the Amish.
Don't do that. The Amish are not good people.
https://www.grunge.com/268104/the-dark-truth-about-amish-country/
We should all be more like the actual Luddites - they destroyed technology that was being used to exploit and/or displace workers.
Let’s start a lemmite anti-tech community ironically full of tech nerds
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Minority Report, the bad parts.
Edit: glad I'm using a deGoogled Android phone, can't trust manufacturers not to enshitificate.
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.
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, and so the enshitification of what once was a great phone continues.
so i guess i'm going to hold on the the pixel 8 for as long as i can then......