I routinely get a Samsung notification telling me to agree to some new agreement thing. I swipe it away. It just reappears in 48 hours or so. I swipe it away. We’ve danced this dance for years.
I don’t know what it’s for, I don’t care, and things are just fine as is. There’s nothing it it for me so, no.
I will need to buy a new TV soon, and the single biggest factor won’t be price, features, or quality, it will be the absolute minimum smart features available. I’m fine with a sleep timer, and built-in audio smoothing would be great, but I can add anything else I want with a dongle that costs less than $100 (or just attach a full-blown computer to it). I’m not made of money, but I’m fortunate enough that I can afford to buy a TV with something other than an opportunity to invade my private life for marketing.
The other thing I’m looking for is a decent non-Google/Apple smartphone with an eye to privacy. A decent Linux phone would be great, Sailfish OS looks promising, maybe there are other options. Hopefully my Samsung lasts until then. When one of their updates came out whose main feature seemed to be the ability to spy on you everywhere, I closed my account and don’t even have that logged in anymore. There are a number of interesting features I can’t use, and a lot of terrible features I don’t want, that aren’t available to me anymore. A smartphone that belongs to me, and not some corporate conglomerate would be nice. We’ll see.
Sailfish isn’t bad but its a compromise. I don’t like that it’s not open source. I’m happy to pay for it, but I’d prefer if it were a community project rather than something buiut behind the closed doors of an understaffed company.
That said I’m using it to type this comment so I must still think its better than the alternatives.
We bought a smart TV a couple years ago, and it was so hard to find a model without a built-in microphone… No I don’t want my fucking TV to listen to every word said in the room.
Same with WhatsApp for me, there are new terms and conditions that allow engagement with businesses and sharing some personal data with them, I’ve been rejecting that shit for four years now, they still keep asking.
Sometimes it’s true but they’ll always let you agree later if they do disable things, so always reject them the first time, in case its an empty threat.
Then again, I’m rolling an S20 Ultra+ that just does everything excellently still. If I want to extend its life as long as possible, I should just load on another OS and solve the Samsung issue that way.
I use an app specifically designed to automatically dismiss notifications and I use it to dismiss this Samsung one you mentioned and the voice mail notification, which for some ridiculous reason can’t be disabled.
This one: https://joaoapps.com/autonotification/ lots of features, somewhat confusing, but I literally only use it for the auto-dismiss, which works so well the notification doesn’t even appear so it’s effectively disabled.
I routinely get a Samsung notification telling me to agree to some new agreement thing. I swipe it away. It just reappears in 48 hours or so. I swipe it away. We’ve danced this dance for years.
I don’t know what it’s for, I don’t care, and things are just fine as is. There’s nothing it it for me so, no.
Please click here to agree to our new Samsung privacy policy.
I’m sure that they would choose to interpret the swipe to clear it as a click
but yeah my last phone I did that for several years. nope, no thank you.
every time I start my TV I have to say I don’t want the new firmware because it comes with a new privacy policy / user agreement
I will need to buy a new TV soon, and the single biggest factor won’t be price, features, or quality, it will be the absolute minimum smart features available. I’m fine with a sleep timer, and built-in audio smoothing would be great, but I can add anything else I want with a dongle that costs less than $100 (or just attach a full-blown computer to it). I’m not made of money, but I’m fortunate enough that I can afford to buy a TV with something other than an opportunity to invade my private life for marketing.
The other thing I’m looking for is a decent non-Google/Apple smartphone with an eye to privacy. A decent Linux phone would be great, Sailfish OS looks promising, maybe there are other options. Hopefully my Samsung lasts until then. When one of their updates came out whose main feature seemed to be the ability to spy on you everywhere, I closed my account and don’t even have that logged in anymore. There are a number of interesting features I can’t use, and a lot of terrible features I don’t want, that aren’t available to me anymore. A smartphone that belongs to me, and not some corporate conglomerate would be nice. We’ll see.
Sailfish isn’t bad but its a compromise. I don’t like that it’s not open source. I’m happy to pay for it, but I’d prefer if it were a community project rather than something buiut behind the closed doors of an understaffed company.
That said I’m using it to type this comment so I must still think its better than the alternatives.
We bought a smart TV a couple years ago, and it was so hard to find a model without a built-in microphone… No I don’t want my fucking TV to listen to every word said in the room.
Same with WhatsApp for me, there are new terms and conditions that allow engagement with businesses and sharing some personal data with them, I’ve been rejecting that shit for four years now, they still keep asking.
And the app still works? Mine told me it was compulsory and would stop working if I didn’t agree
Sometimes it’s true but they’ll always let you agree later if they do disable things, so always reject them the first time, in case its an empty threat.
My Samsung forced update and installed bloatware. I’m looking forward to going back and getting a clamshell phone from
tothe 2000’sI do the same. I’m close to just delete my samsung account because I don’t really need and/or use it.
I stopped using a Samsung account a long time ago. Never used it with my current phone. It doesn’t seem to make a difference.
True. I genuinely don’t use i either.
Then again, I’m rolling an S20 Ultra+ that just does everything excellently still. If I want to extend its life as long as possible, I should just load on another OS and solve the Samsung issue that way.
I use an app specifically designed to automatically dismiss notifications and I use it to dismiss this Samsung one you mentioned and the voice mail notification, which for some ridiculous reason can’t be disabled.
Which one
I use Macrodroid for similar notification handling shenanigans. I even bought it bc it’s so beautifully customisable 👌
This one: https://joaoapps.com/autonotification/ lots of features, somewhat confusing, but I literally only use it for the auto-dismiss, which works so well the notification doesn’t even appear so it’s effectively disabled.
btw you might be able to block notifications from that app with long clicking
No, it doesn’t let you disable this notification unfortunately.
At some point it annoys me so much I just hit accept. It’s probably nothing anyway.
That’s what they want, so spite fuels my resolve to reject it repeatedly
I know, bad habit. But I just couldn’t care less about those stupid agreements. I just want the damn popup gone.
I legit got this notification on my phone while reading this comment. I do the same and will continue to do the same.