alt Hacker NewsI had a ~2008 vintage Samsung phone with a fingerprint sensor that gave your blood oxygen level (SpO2). One day it told me something similar, I had to agree to send them data or I couldn’t use it. So I never used it again, but yeah they have been abusing their costumers a long time.
This is they same company whose tvs take pictures of what you are watching and send them back to Samsung.
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nubinetwork • yesterday at 4:00 AM
At least yours still works, they took out the ability to use the sensor on my s5 some years ago... one random app upgrade and they just decided nope.
Every TV does that unfortunately. It's called automatic content recognition but every manufacturer has a different euphemism for it.
It's definitely not just Samsung. As bad as this is. The problem is bigger than just them.