Samsung is a company known for the fact that it integrates in its phones and tablets all kinds of applications that no one needs anymore, a bloatware that complicates the functionality of mobile terminals, and takes up unnecessary space. However, Samsung is not limited to that, because now phone users have started to complain about the advertisements that the Korean company starts sending out of the blue through Push notifications.
Samsung uses its push notification service, through which it usually announces updates for its own applications, or for the operating system, to send messages with advertisements for phone and tablet users. You can see in the image below how such an ad sent by the Samsung company looks like for American customers that it announces in connection with a promotion for Galaxy Tab S3 tablets, before the launch of the Galaxy Tab S4.
Samsung DISAPPOINTS its users with something that Apple would NOT do
Samsung does not ask users if they want to receive push alerts with ads, and disabling push notifications for the service that sends them can only be done using a command line application and entering a special command. Basically, Samsung does not have a setting that allows disabling the service that sends notifications together with these ads, so users are forced to accept them, if they do not know the command to disable them from the system.
"This new advertisement I received today is arguably worse than earlier push notifications as instead of advertising a free app through their own Game Launcher, it is advertising a product that costs $450. f you've received these push notifications or any other advertisement from the Samsung Push Service and want to stop receiving them, you can disable the app using ADB."
Samsung does not have this practice today, or yesterday, but for several years, and although users complained about its existence, and asked to stop sending advertisements through this service, of course that did not happen. What Samsung does, other companies from China also routinely do, but it's something we won't see at Apple, the American company never sending any advertisement through a notification that doesn't come from an application installed by the user, and which can't have notifications turned off.
