Re: Samsung account

AJL wrote on Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:24:34 -0700 :

If that works you'll be back to the one Google store which I think is
what you want?

I read the prior four responses which didn't address the privacy issues.

As I said, marketing wants you to keep their brand of horses and cows and
emus and chickens and jaguars and elephants and mice on your farm but my
rule is that nothing gets to live on my farm unless it gives back to me.

I don't care that marketing uses it to gather data on me to sell to others.

However, since I have a Samsung, I was asked in the beginning to set up the
Samsung Account, which I never did - and I never get any nags at all. Ever.

To make good decisions, when I asked on XDA what good is the Samsung Store,
respondents only found one app that they found useful on the Samsung Store
and even what that one app does can be replicated without Samsung involved.

To make even better decisions, I googled what the world thinks of it.
When I googled, a similar answer ensued (see prior referenced cites).

And yet, since marketing tells people what to do and they do it, I'm sure
there are millions of Samsung Accounts gathering data every single day.

Not me. I make good decisions. And I don't do anything just because
marketing tells me to do it. I leave that for the other people to do.

Yet, for the one seemingly technical question of setting Wi-Fi calling on
the Samsung phone, I can't imagine that's the only way to do it, since I
can set Wi-Fi calling with one button tap (without the Samsung Account) so
I'm not sure what that complaint is all about (on Android 13 at least).

You just make a desktop shortcut to Settings > Connections > Wi-Fi Calling.
But maybe I misunderstood what the problem was as that's just too easy.

If someone can justify a Samsung Account on their phone that makes sense to
me (in that I can't get that function any other way), then I'll be all ears
since I love functionality on a phone just as much as anyone else loves it.

I just happen to not want to trade my privacy for what marketing wants me
to do (and which I can get, anyway, without trading it for my privacy).