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Cub3today at 4:24 AM6 repliesview on HN

> it was filled with ads

You bought a phone from an advertising company?


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greentea23today at 10:14 PM

All factory operating systems come with ads and bloat and spyware, Apple/Samsung included. Google remains the lesser of all other evils because at least to date, they offer an open source OS, bootloader unlocking, and root. A community driven mobile OS is absolutely where we should go, but for now and the foreseeable future you can call a Lyft, deposit a check (in America), and do other mainstream tasks on AOSP flavors without Google/Apple/Samsung having to know anything about it. It's never been easier to make the user friendly choice too: https://grapheneos.org/install/web

fg137today at 11:11 AM

It's not like buying from Samsung is any better.

dackdeltoday at 5:11 AM

for some reason i read that in archer(animated) voice.

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harvey9today at 8:41 AM

Don't recall my old nexus devices having ads in the OS. Disappointing where Google has taken this.

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yard2010today at 9:29 AM

"Do you not?"

petretoday at 11:47 AM

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