Jackson soon discovered that Amazon suspended his account because a Black delivery driver who’d come to his house the previous day had reported hearing racist remarks from his video doorbell. In a brief email sent to Jackson at 3 a.m., the company explained how it unilaterally placed all of his linked devices and services on hold as it commenced an internal investigation.
The accusations baffled Jackson. He and his family are Black. When he reviewed the doorbell’s footage, he saw that nobody was home at the time of the delivery. At a loss for what could have prompted the accusation of racism, he suspected the driver had misinterpreted the doorbell’s automated response: “Excuse me, can I help you?”
We should also be able to delete apps on our devices. I have an LG TV that keeps wanting me to use Alexa, but I’m not positive it’s not doing its shitty thing anyway because I can’t delete it.
Man that huge one for me. Samsung phones have so much bolated wear and you can’t delete the apps. Also should be illegal to add games to my device after an update.
Use your wallet. Don’t buy products like that.
Which products don’t have that? I’m seriously asking, I would buy those.
Fairphone?
Maybe? It seems like from their site that they’re more interested in saving the planet but it is bare bones. It doesn’t really make any declarations on that front.
It doesn’t come with preloaded shit though, so in that sense it’s a good option.
I didn’t see that on their site, that’s good to know.
Search ADB OTG pm uninstall -k --user 0 [PACKAGE NAME]
Thank me later
It comes with stock Android, no additional bloatware. There are various tutorials to install other OSes.
Pixel devices, devices with custom roms, and devices that you used ADB bridge to disable or uninstall “system” apps.
Pixel phones are not saints either. They keep pushing google products/servicea down your throat.
Not if you install GrapheneOS
https://itsfoss.com/open-source-alternatives-android/
So, you would have to root kit it, right? I’m not sure I trust myself to be able to do it. I guess I could try it on an old phone or something.
Disconnect the tv from the internet. Use an AppleTV or Nvidea Shield.
Some of them will auto connect to open WiFi signals without advising you just to dial home.
The only open signal in my area is actually a paywalled network that uses a portal to make you pay
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The Motorola phones I’ve been buying for ages are usually real light on bloat. Worst I had was having to remove Facebook from my phone using CLI commands (I think with adb?)
Pixels…
Their TVs are annoying as fuck. I’ll never buy anything Samsung again.
https://monero.town/post/631850
That’s probably more on the carrier than Samsung themselves. I’ve genuinely never had an issue like that since switching to an unlocked device.
When reading about “smart” thermostat. It has been found that these would listen even though there is no account is linked nor it is activated.