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On a similar note, Samsung updated a bunch of apps on my dad's s7 and pushed a bunch of notifications to him, trying to get him to join some Samsung rewards club and suspended use of his phone until he clicked next. He's 67 guys. The madness needs to stop.

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I just got ahold of an S8 Edge and by god is it full of shite. I won't be buying any Samsung hardware, and I'll definitely recommend my friends/family don't; it might be the least user-friendly device I've ever used. The first 2 days you have to spend disabling so many things, or getting daft popups all over the place explaining things you don't care about.

"Crapware: Originally coined and reported by Marc Orchant on his ZDNet blog." https://lifehacker.com/5749098/the-computer-attacks-youve-ne...

Buy Nokia if you need Android, you get only first-party shite that Google provides. And it receives updates.

Wow, now that's all kinds of f'ed up. Not so crazy about the update but to suspend the use of the phone is just stupid when you talk about just some apps updates.

Now it's incredibly hard to get them to keep their software up to date. They refuse to install security updates for fear the rig will be pulled out from underneath them again.

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