HTC 10 keyboard suddenly starts showing ads, fix is on the way
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That absolutely reminded me of the "Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?" Futurama scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGgTy5YJ-g
I took some detective work to figure out which app was causing the issue since there's no visible clue on the ad itself, and since I have never used Peel Remote. I eventually figured it out somehow and disabled the app. I imagine that lots of other HTC users are still dealing with this.
HTC should really protect their users from this abusive behaviour by their partners.
EDIT: Mention that I've never even used Peel Remote, which makes the ads even more annoying!
I was about to consider this a shame, as HTC's own app was pretty good, but not sure if I would trust them not to put ads in it anyway now.
It's kind of interesting that below binary numbers, there are unary numbers, where there is no way to represent zero apart from complete lack of any symbols. You could almost say that unary is the native number system of the eyeball.
We can only hope that they remove this and fire all the product managers involved. There is no way you can justify adding Bitmoji to a default keyboard used by people who want to get work done.
Extremely disappointed in Android today.
Either that or back into feature phones, because I don't see any other mobile OS alternative winning over Android, regarding general public.
Of course as I geek I can do all of that, but I rather sponsor someone that cares about the joe and jane on the street can do with their devices.
Project Treble[0] only enforces a certain level of hardware requirements.
There are zero requirements for OEMs or carriers to actually push updates to their devices, and they are still allowed to customize their forks. [1]
Also it requires consumers to buy a new device running Android O, hoping that the OEM will actually push updates, because even those getting an update from Android N to O won't have any guarantees of further updates.
[0] - https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/treble
[1] - http://androidbackstage.blogspot.de/2017/08/episode-75-proje...
When I shop for my next phone, "Treble-compatible" will be the top requirement.
Which devices and which distro's ?
A few years back I got fed up with everything, and tossed my smartphone in the sea - spent 3 years with a feature phone, and frankly, it was awesome. I had to get a smartphone again due to changes with my business, and it doesn't make me happy.
(I was hoping it was a custom keyboard in the app but apparently not!)
This is somewhat frustrating since I have a Moto-E from Republic Wireless running Android 4.4.4. I only use this phone for texting and calls since it is like 12 bucks a month. For browsing and watching movies I use a iPhone 6 my sister gave me that doesn't have cell or data service. No other software besides what came with the phone has been installed on the Mote-E. I use the default phone and texting applications.
I actually never learned how to screenshot with Android so I just snapped a pic with my iPhones camera.
You can't "fix" an obviously intentional decision of having an ad panel in a keyboard widget.
Since they reversed it very quickly, I find it believable.
The only reason why you'd ever press that button is by accident (these WAP pages had no useful content at all) and each accidental button press would cost the equivalent to $2 due to outrageous mobile charges.
The placement of these buttons was always such that you'd likely hit them accidentally.
I sure hope the "pure" Android experience doesn't include ads.
Lets face it though, Google is an ad company which tells you two things about them;
1. To them, you're a wallet with opposable thumbs.
2. Everything they do is done with the goal of propagating their advertising network into more places.