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Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 days ago by 0x0@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C'mon, juuuust a little.. 'till you no longer notice.

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[โ€“] meejle@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Why would anyone opt in ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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 ยฃ800 I might jump ship.

[โ€“] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 days ago

I know a bunch of folks who will opt in because their thought process regarding technology is pretty much "new = good."

[โ€“] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Why would anyone opt in ๐Ÿ˜ญ

Because the checkbox will be checked by default, and most people just speedrun through the setup as if it was a competition

[โ€“] PlantJam@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pixel is a decent alternative, and de-googled pixel is even better yet.

[โ€“] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The main issue with the Pixel is that there is still going money to Google

[โ€“] PlantJam@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not if you buy second hand, though!

[โ€“] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

That's true!

[โ€“] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I tried a Samsung phone a year or two ago. It lasted less than a day before I was so infuriated that I vowed never to use Samsung again. It is SO invasive and pushes so many ads and bloatware.

[โ€“] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl -1 points 2 days ago

Samsung bricked by first Android because of an Android update, my friends who bought the same phone two weeks later had no issues ....