Samsung begins removing ads from Health and Pay apps

01 October 2021
Samsung has been criticized for placing ads in first-party apps for years.

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  • 02 Oct 2021

AAA Media, 02 Oct 2021Samsung is very good at manipulating the tech media. All t... moreAds on Xiaomi will need to be turned off again after about 3 months which many users don’t realize.

They are just blind buyers wanting tech on the cheap, the latter having worse build quality and unstable UI.

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    • 02 Oct 2021

    GAMIRSFM, 02 Oct 2021I have been using Samsung phones since 2014~ i never seen a... moreAds started appearing on Samsung phones with OneUI, specifically OneUI 2.0 onwards which was circa year 2020 to now.

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      • tZk
      • 02 Oct 2021

      AAA Media, 02 Oct 2021Samsung is very good at manipulating the tech media. All t... moreI have to add that the ads will return after update to new Android version. That's what happened when I updated my old A50 to Android 11. Need to go through all the setup again was not fun at all.

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        • tZk
        • 02 Oct 2021

        I think Samsung pushing ads earnestly from OneUI 2.0 onwards. Ads started appearing on my old A50 after update from 1.0 to 2.0. Ads also appearing in my current phone A52 if not setup properly. In my opinion, Samsung should not push ads at all since their phones are already more premiumly priced than other brands.

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          • tZj
          • 02 Oct 2021

          To those that keep denying Samsung push ads in their phones: Here is the proof for you!

            with high price of Samsung phones,
            OneUI should not have Ads to begin with

              lmao imagine paying over $1000 and still getting ads on your phone as if samsung needs the extra revenue stream

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                • Anonymous
                • N}D
                • 02 Oct 2021

                Too little too late Scamsung, after the sales of the S line went down the $hiter...
                While you're at it, get rid of stupid Coronavirus "statistics" in the Weather app as well. It is a weather app, not epidemiological app!

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                  • Mkm
                  • 02 Oct 2021

                  Anonymous, 02 Oct 2021One UI is bloatware in my opinion. MIUI and EMUI are eve... moreMIUI 12.5 has less bloatware than IOS

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                    • I21
                    • 02 Oct 2021

                    Thank god apple doesn’t do it.
                    Android sucks. Every android oem does it.

                      Samsung is very good at manipulating the tech media.
                      All these tech reviewers talk about ads on Xiaomi, which can all be disabled, yet they fail to mention the ads on OneUi that don't go away unless you setup the phone again, turning off things in hidden menu.

                        Buy a phone that you can unlock the bootloader & install a custom ROM. Why do you think OEMs lock the bootloader, so that they can show you ads on your own phone you bought with your own money at a higher price even NO NO.

                          Bloatware is unacceptable. Still sh#t regardless of whichever OEM UI.

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                            • 02 Oct 2021

                            AnonD-1016461, 02 Oct 2021Samsung has more bloatware than Chinese Xiaomi One UI is bloatware in my opinion.

                            MIUI and EMUI are even bigger bloatware.

                            But in the end, big or small, bloatware is bloatware no matter how you look at it.

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                              • 3bm
                              • 02 Oct 2021

                              GAMIRSFM, 02 Oct 2021I have been using Samsung phones since 2014~ i never seen a... moreThat "galaxy S10 is out" is notification from an app which you can mute.

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                                • 02 Oct 2021

                                GAMIRSFM, 02 Oct 2021Google is aswell, the only clean way to use Android is just... moreFor sure, sadly the way stupid Android works mean you've got to have one OS per phone, which is stupid...
                                I am on Windows, which isn't much better bloatware wise, but I more and more consider just switching to Linux for those kind of reasons...

                                  AnonD-1016461, 02 Oct 2021lol when it doesn't show ads for you it doesn't ... moreI have been using Samsung phones since 2014~ i never seen an ad from Samsung in my phone. But some of my family's phones it did showed up ads for example "Galaxy S10 is out now" or something like that in their notifications.
                                  Everytime i set up a phone i make sure to read the checkmars that im agreeing on, the last 2 or 3 are to put ads on the phone. It also asks you if you want Marketing pushed to you in the Galaxy Store and the Game launcher.

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                                    • gLn
                                    • 02 Oct 2021

                                    Anonymous, 01 Oct 2021You think Samsung pay is bloatware ? Samsung has more bloatware than Chinese Xiaomi

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                                      • gLn
                                      • 02 Oct 2021

                                      GAMIRSFM, 02 Oct 2021"Users in South Korea can now use both Samsung Pay and... morelol
                                      when it doesn't show ads for you it doesn't mean people agreed to or doesn't exist
                                      just listen to Samsung itself

                                        Its a start 👍🏻