Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook

Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by simple_phrases on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:30AM (#18866005)

After doing research in order to buy a new phone, I find it strange that Xaomi products are being suggested as an alternative to vendor anti-privacy and bloat.

MIUI is baked in and you need to register an account with Xaomi if you want to unlock your bootloader and put, say, LineageOS on your phone. Xaomi has a bootloader lockout period on their phones, during which you must wait and use MIUI for a period until your bootloader unlocks. They've increased that period from what was once a couple of weeks, to over a month on new models. That's plenty of time for Xaomi to harvest your data.

Meanwhile, there are other phones that allow you to unlock your bootloader without a data harvesting period.

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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by kofejnik on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:19AM (#18872791)

A couple of months ago, I started getting notifications for random alibaba crap on my Xiaomi phone. Turns out, there's a system app which sends you ads as push notifs. Switched to iphone the next day, privacy is the killer feature.

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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by vetinari on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:12PM (#18866489)

Mi A1 is Android One phone, i.e. no MIUI, but pure Google experience.

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