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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."
They put ads in the channel menu. You could remove those channels (it was a royal pain in the ass), but they'd pop up again after a few days.
Hey U-Verse, if you can't make money charging me $140/month for lowest tier cable, then fuck you. I don't want to see your fucking ads when I channel surf.
tldr; Last May I canned U-verse, went from $140+/month to Cox cable basic internet for $15, and I'm not missing a thing. Then again, I spent about $300 one time charge for hardware (cable modem, pi 3B+, router) and am pretty good with bit-torrent. I figure 4-5 years before "pirating" stuff gets hard to do, but by then I plan to have 10-15 years of stuff on my NAS to watch. I'm old, if I'm not dead in 15 years I'll come up with a plan B.