Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.
sighs…typing this on an S23 Ultra. I can’t wait to get a pixel to degoogle.
GrapheneOS is the way.
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My locked bootloader snapdragon 8 gen 2 is telling me to fuck myself with a sock filled with broken glass right now.
I’d recommend CalyxOS as a replacement os.
No google code at all to get full functionality of your hardware (excluding Google pay, but graphene doesn’t have that either.)
Anything you need, e.g. swipe typing or advanced camera features, you can install Google’s versions and block their ability to talk to the internet via the built-in firewall.
I just wanna use my carriers sms/rcs channels and their 5g internet. I don’t need Anymore middleman than Me>Verizon>Host/Destination
Sure, you get that by default. Firewall only steps in for apps you explicitly block. There’s a toggle for if you want apps blocked by default for you to allow, if you prefer.
Point is, it’s a system that just works, stays out of your way and doesn’t phone home to anyone, just as you’d expect.
Whatever you wind up doing, good luck out there and have fun.
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Can’t upvote this now.
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.
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.
What did you do to get OSM working properly? I’ve not used it enough to get to know it because it’s not been reliable enough for me. But a couple of times it’s taken me as far as a road, but didn’t know where on the road my destination was.
You have to use the Google Play version of OSM for Android Auto, plus tweak a setting or two in the advanced settings of AA. As for the maps itself it’s been fine, I use GPS not Google Play Services for location, so I need to make sure the phone is in clear view of the sky for best results, but it still works in the center console of my car. Just make sure your location services are on before opening OSM or it acts funky.
Donate to Graphene if you have the means.
OP12R allows facescreen to unlock, but i disabled it.
who the fuck asked for this
Samsung’s board of directors. Of which half are probably using iPhones.
They probably saw the Virtual Try on from Google I/O and shit their pants
Never ending capitalism
And consumerism.
Doesn’t feel correct to blame the average person for this.
That’s crazy.
Anyways I’m gonna pitch never buying a Samsung phone again to the HR people if this comes true.
Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.
This is excellent.
Our entire internet ecosystem is the “frog in boiling water” metaphor… They just keep turning the heat up… we need to delete the entire internet and re-work it from the ground up… somehow
Just go back to the 2000s and go from there.
Every night, I pray to Jah that I will wake up in a version of 2002 where Al Gore didn’t let Dubya steal the 2000 election.
I’m not american, but if I could change one US president from the past, it would be Reagan. A good part of the fuckery we see today (i.e. rampant neo-liberal late-stage capitalism) was enabled by him
i have a feeling not much would be different given how politics go in cycles anyway. W might have even won a 2nd try in 2004 or 2008.
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.
Thankfully, this is a fully opt-in experience.
And how long before they decide to make a default instead of opt-in?
opt-in:
Can we take all your stuff?
- Yes daddy
- Remind me tomorrow
Probably until the influencers cash their paychecks and are forced to shill this bullshit to their moronic audiences.
Buddy had the nightmarish idea a while back with all the new generative ai stuff for video chat services injecting ads using the faces/voices of the participants in lieu of payment. Just, regularly-schedule ad breaks in your call where “your friend” suddenly starts talking about how excited they are about Raid: Shadow Legends
Black Mirror with Rashida Jones
Oh wild, good call
Lol who downvoted you but not me?
Lol, I want to believe it was someone who wanted to slow the spread of this concept in the world, lashing out against it the only way they could.
That said I’ve def bookmarked that episode for watching. I lost track of Black MIrror, it’s a bit tough in that it’s so grim that each episode doesn’t really leave you wanting to watch the next one in my experience. But it’s had some bangers.
That one is particularly rage inducing if it’s the one I’m thinking of (I think ep 1 of the new season?).
Some of the others in the new season aren’t so depressing or rage inducing, though.
After having watched it (it was good, watched it with the buddy who had the idea and without telling him why we were watching it, he had a laugh the first time it happened), if you found it a real struggle, definitely don’t read this article about a real company that made a brain implant for epileptics and went under of which the episode heavily reminded me.
Jesus. Delet this.
Too late, Black Mirror already has an episode about this exact idea (starring Rashida Jones).
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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
We’ve already kinda got that: !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
Nice. But I also meant in real life
Move to somewhere with privacy laws
Are techbros so bland that they really can’t think of literally any fucking way to make money that isn’t just ‘ads’?
The other option is bombing kids.
The other option is creating a reliable, high quality product that people want and creates value for the user. This was how most businesses operated before Jack Fucking Welch.
But it’s easier to force slop, ads, and slop-made ads on people.
…subscription services? For everything?
That’s just the money their making itself. When it comes down to what are we subscribing for, it keeps being ads again. They keep deciding that subscriptions make money by removing ads.
Like, why not subscriptions that actually add something gainful? Subscribe to stream your games to any TV, subscribe to get dog food delivered to your house monthly, subscribe to Socks of the Month Club. Those things exist in other industries, but tech?? Nope, it’s just ads, or subscribe to less ads.
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!
It’s more a matter of running out the clock on my S22. When this puppy is dead, pixel is next.
I’m thick as mince and am running GrapheneOS, AND I came from 16 years of iPhones.
If I can do it, anyone can.
This, the web installer basically does everything for you, so no way to fuck up unless you disconnect the phone during the setup. Also haven’t had any problems with banking apps and the like, though Eventim doesn’t seem to work.
I haven’t had issues with my banking app either but I don’t use the NFC wallet functionality and never have. I prefer to just tap my physical card.
That’s technically true but the default experience would be a challenge for most noobs. It takes a bit of work to get apps for typical stuff, have to go get Fdroid and allow install from other sources etc
You can use the Aurora store for apps. You can also use Google Play for apps if you’re not super privacy minded. The beauty of GrapheneOS is that it doesn’t have to be a locked down security privacy-minded OS if you don’t want it to be. It can be just as functional as anything else with very few exceptions.
It just gives you the option to pursue security and privacy if you want.
Well I guess I’ll never buy another Samsung.
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.
I know a bunch of folks who will opt in because their thought process regarding technology is pretty much “new = good.”
Pixel is a decent alternative, and de-googled pixel is even better yet.
The main issue with the Pixel is that there is still going money to Google
Not if you buy second hand, though!
That’s true!
Why would anyone opt in 😭
Because the checkbox will be checked by default, and most people just speedrun through the setup as if it was a competition
