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A new one for me the other day was "Google Nearby". Enabled by default and some company in the airport using it to push ads to your notifications. Disgusting an
by 0x00000000 9y ago
A new one for me the other day was "Google Nearby". Enabled by default and some company in the airport using it to push ads to your notifications. Disgusting and maybe the final nail in the coffin for Android for me. As a long time diehard android user, iPhone sounds better and better every day.
- dmitrygr 9y agoCould you please tell me which airport this was and if you remember the location and the ad? Thanks a lot
- 0x00000000 9y agoIt was either BWI or LAX and it said "Your ad here" with some url. I had no idea what it was so I long pressed on the notification and did some searching
- hammock 9y agoGoogle Nearby is everywhere, I feel like I've seen it walking past Targets and a bunch of other places lately. Even small businesses
- fredley 9y agoI've got a Pixel, won't be getting Pixel 2. My partner just got a OnePlus 5T though, and it looks very good. Definitely considering OnePlus as my next step.
- hammock 9y agoOnePlus have always looked v good. But they don't work on Verizon so that's a non starter.
- KitDuncan 9y agoWhy not just use a rom without all the bloatware and maybe even without google services alltogether?
- 0x00000000 9y agoMy carrier forces all manufacturers to lock the bootloader. Also doesn't stuff like Google pay and netflix not work?
- j_s 9y agohttps://lineage.microg.org https://lineage.microg.org discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619416 supported devices: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices
- finnn 9y agoIn case anyone's wondering more about how that store did that, here's the docs: https://developers.google.com/beacons/ https://developers.google.com/beacons/