Xiaomi Admits To Putting Ads In the Settings Menu of Its Phones (theverge.com)

Xiaomi, the world's fourth largest smartphone maker, was caught by a Reddit user for placing ads in the settings menu of its smartphones. The ads reportedly show up in Xiaomi's MIUI apps, including the music app and settings menu (MIUI is the name of Xiaomi's skinned version of Android). The Verge reports: When The Verge reached out to Xiaomi for confirmation on this matter, the company responded with the following statement, while also clarifying that it only applies to its devices running MIUI and not its Android One phones: "Advertising has been and will continue to be an integral part of Xiaomi's Internet services, a key component of the company's business model. At the same time, we will uphold user experience by offering options to turn off the ads and by constantly improving our approach towards advertising, including adjusting where and when ads appear. Our philosophy is that ads should be unobtrusive, and users always have the option of receiving fewer recommendations."

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The appropriate response for end users. I know exactly what would cut back on shit ads, lets make companies, any company that promotes products, financially liable for the products they promote. See, they fucking called it a recommendation, they are recommending the product by intent and for profit and thus should be legally liable for any failure of the product or service.

Want to see change in the advertising model, makes those selling advertising, legally liable, by Xiaomi's own mouth, for the products they recommend. Every company, every blog, anyone who shows a product or service recommendation for profit, liable for the failure of that product or service.

Why the fuck should companies who profit by recommending shit product be free from the legal liability for that failed product, how the fuck did they escape that, they are selling it, they should be liable for it. So when companies are sued for failed product, those who advertised it, are also sued and all the victims have access to their pockets as well. Why can't you sue google when it recommends crap on it's advertising platform, they are selling it to you, targeting your personally, manipulating your choice, where the fuck is their legal responsibility for the qualities of the products or services they sell on their advertising platform, corruptly absent it would seem.

Even when they sell it directly https://www.smh.com.au/money/b..., they still claim innocence. Google should be hit in the courts for this, right alongside the fraudster, the executive who approved the sale, should enjoy a custodial sentence for their criminal negligence or were they paid to allow the product to be sold, well they were paid, they are professionals, they are experts and they were 100% criminally negligent and should get a major fine, a major civil suit by those banks for damaged reputation and a custodial sentence for whom ever at Google was involved.