Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re copying Apple, which has similar clauses. They’re all going to copy Apple, unfortunately. Say that they support independent repair stores, but in reality place so many restrictions and requirements on them.

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• fiercekitten@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I stopped buying Samsung products a decade ago after getting a midrange Samsung smartphone that never got an OS update and had glaring bugs that never got fixed, as well as having bought a new Samsung refrigerator that would make an extremely loud bang sound every couple of hours because of a design flaw in the water line that goes to the freezer to make ice cubes.

  I owned other Samsung products that also had problems, but these two cheesed me off the most.

  Over the years I have read about problem after problem people have had with Samsung appliances, and problem after problem with Samsung smart phones. Samsung has been downright user-hostile to their phone customers for a while now.

  Fuck Samsung.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Samsung have gotten better with updates. In 2021, they promised all new models would receive four years of updates (which helped the industry because other brands started matching them), and they bumped it to seven years with this year’s S24 series.

    Samsung and LG appliances are interesting things. Some are horrible like their fridges (which are some of the worst available today), but some are fantastic like LG’s washing machines (which rank #2 in reliability behind Speed Queen).

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    • MagicShel@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have a Samsung fridge I’m happy with but I specifically avoided the in-door water/ice dispenser because I’ve heard awful things about them.

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  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Their TVs are a pain in the ass too. The UI can be annoying and sluggish, sometimes requiring a hard reboot to get it to sort itself out.

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Their entire product line really went to shit around 2015, whether you’re talking about phones, TVs, or appliances.

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  • esaru@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I stopped buying their phones when they started trying to get control over the hardware I paid for, preventing me from installing the Operating System of my choice. I switched to Google Pixel phones and installed GrapheneOS via its one-click installation. Since then I’m enjoying a clean simple interface with no advertisement, no background telemetry, and a long battery life.

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  • hellequin67@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only saving grace with Samsung washing machine was it had two years of warranty and after about the 6th repair in just over 14 months the retailer swapped ot for another brand.

    Typing this on a S24 Ultra and have numerous tvs but will shy away from any elctro domestics in the future.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  so one of the reasons they shunned independent repair was that your privacy was at risk or something… and now they require repair shops to share customer data.

  i can’t with these corpo doublespeak motherfuckers.

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• Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wish 404media would adjust their headline layout… So much text, so big, so narrow

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  • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s got that weird typeface too.

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