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.
Bro you're doing good, only 9993 steps to go
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 like Android but man Samsung's version has always sucked
I'll literally never buy a Samsung phone again if these fuckers push ads to my device.
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
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.
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...
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.
Only 7 steps?
Yeah, South Korea is awful. I don't mean the people. They are getting the brunt of it, in fact.
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.
Awful... Should be illegal.
This sort of thing is what keeps me away from Samsung phones.
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
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.
Samsung peaked at the S7
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