Except for the fact that Samsung is the 800 pounds gorilla in the smartphone space which you'll know will be around for some time. How long is Fairphone going to last? Maybe the founders want to retire early and sell to the highest bidder.
I'd much rather see them running GrapheneOS or /e/OS on it also.
As all too common
GDPR: "legimate interest"
EU261: "exceptional circumstances", no deadlines for paying compensation etc
yes yes, "no law is perfect" etc..nobody could foresee anything...downvote away
It doesn't allow spying though. It allows, e.g., to save your session if you intentionally logged in.
Typical "legitimate interest" section is about sharing data with 40 "trusted partners".
I opened Google News. First site I've seen is t3.com - some review of pebble wearable.
I was greeted by cookie dialog. I clicked "more info" -> "partners" -> "legitimate interest".
131 vendors, including among other "Adform - agentic advertising" who wishes to store laundry list of my data for 10 years.