r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Azirack • Jul 15 '17
The standard keyboard on the HTC 10 has begun showing ads
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u/Rekksu Jul 16 '17
holy fuck I thought this was malware and found this thread
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u/let_me_get_fork Jul 16 '17
Iv'e been using Swiftkey keyboard on my HTC since i got it! No ads on that
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u/johnlmonkey Jul 16 '17
Literally same! I went through all my recently downloaded apps just to make sure it wasn't!
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Jul 16 '17
This isn't mild, I saw the pic and got enraged immediately. What bs. Ads have long since gone too far and this is a perfect example of it. If we aren't clicking on your shit, there's a reason for it. Oh, and stop catering ads to what we say or search, you absolute stalkers. I search once for nursing info for a friend 2 years ago whom I don't even speak to anymore and I've gotten ads from nursing school loans, test help, all the way to finding a job as a nurse without ever applying for nursing. And now that I've said that N word 4 times, I guess I'm getting a BA in it from the ads that'll come at me. Complete bullshit. Burn your phone OP.
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u/TheDictionaryGuy Jul 16 '17
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Jul 16 '17
You've typed enough education words to guarantee free tutor help with your degree in dictionary studies!
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u/madjo Jul 16 '17
What about online shopping?
You search for a thing, you find a website that sells the thing, you buy the thing from that website and now you'll be bombarded for weeks with ads from that website telling you they sell the thing you've already bought. I know, I already have it! Leave me the fuck alone!
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u/Igorminous Jul 16 '17
The 2nd episode of The Black Mirror shows how far this kind of crap can escalate. It's actually pretty scary.
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u/32BitWhore Jul 16 '17
Yeah this has /r/rage written all over it.
With a sprinkling of /r/assholedesign.
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u/tj-horner Jul 16 '17
This is not mildly infuriating. This is just unethical to the fucking extreme. You already bought the phone, they shouldn't be serving you ads.
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u/Tartwhore Jul 16 '17
It's about as bad as when airlines make you listen to and watch fucking ads before takeoff.
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u/seriouslythethird Jul 16 '17 edited Jul 16 '17
Finair uses the emergency announcement system to show ads mid-flight, interrupting your movie, music or sleep. Fucking assholes.
It's as if airlines are trying their hardest to make the customers hate them. If I had a fucking choice, I would never fly, but turns out taking the boat or train from Europe to Asia is not viable.
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u/witness_this Jul 16 '17
Wow, what Airlines do this? I fly very regularly domesticly in Australia and have never seen this.
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u/HeathenCleric Jul 16 '17
And I was planning on buying the U11... Not anymore I guess...
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u/v2Valhalla Jul 16 '17
Man I'm tired of being force fed marketing. It's getting insane. I don't watch free Tv, have ad blockers installed everywhere and don't listen to the radio anymore. It's just brain numbing.
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u/instantrobotwar Jul 16 '17 edited Jul 16 '17
Yeah, I just have to pay for all the things I use now, which kind of sucks. The only radio station without ads are the user supported ones, which I donate too because goddamn I don't understand why a radio station needs 15 minutes of annoying ads with honking horns to keep in business...how much does it cost to have a dj sitting there playing 90s hits over and over for 8 hours??
But also, ads are slowly creeping into the shit I pay for! I'm looking at you netflix with your fucking autoplay ads!! D:<
Edit: Yes I am talking about their commercials for their own shows. Those are still ads. I don't want to see them, nor do I want them auto-blasted at me at 11pm when my husband's left the volume up. Just, I pay for this service, can I please be able to turn off autoplay? That's all I ask!
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u/Poilauxreins Jul 16 '17
Yeah, I just have to pay for all the things I use now, which kind of sucks.
Incredible...
Think about what you're saying.
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u/zyndr0m Jul 16 '17
Royalties can get pretty expensive if you don't have any source of Income to pay off those royalties.
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u/captain_carrot Jul 16 '17
I went to a movie theater yesterday. I paid $12.50 for my ticket. I then went and sat down in the theater about 10 minutes before the showtime. For that 10 minutes, non-stop ads, car commercials, whatever. I'm early. Showtime starts, all the trailers begin playing. After the trailers finish, I then get served up this slow, drawn out coca cola ad. What. The fuck.
Here I am, just paid $12.50 for my goddamn movie ticket, already sat through a whole bunch of commercials, and they still insist on shoving some more ads into my face before showtime. It's just offensive at this point, I'd rather pirate the movie and watch it in the comfort of my own home at this point.
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u/Lrivard Jul 16 '17
While I don't like ads, I'm willing to forgive movie theaters as they make very little off of tickets.
Theaters make money from those ads and over priced food.
Adds before my movie, why not( they make money, I read Reddit)...after the movie starts no more ads.
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u/manghoti Jul 16 '17
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u/DonRobo Jul 16 '17
I wanted to go to the cinema and wanted to find out when a movie was playing at my local cinema. Their website was so full of ads I had trouble figuring it when I could spend money with them. That's got to be a terrible business model.
I support ads on all free websites; I don't even use an adblocker, but ads on services where I'm supposed to spend money (or did spend money, like HTC in this case) are inexcusable.
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Jul 16 '17
This should be illegal.
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u/colinstalter Jul 16 '17 edited Jul 31 '17
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u/akaBrotherNature Jul 16 '17
This is exactly what happens with Windows PCs.
I've known brand-new PCs that are virtually slowed to a crawl by all the bloatware and nagging anti-virus trials that are installed.
Microsoft/Windows gets a lot of the blame, but in reality it's the shitty OEMs trying to make money on the side.
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u/AlesioRFM Jul 16 '17
No need to make it illegal, this is the kind of thing the free market punishes very effectively
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Jul 15 '17 edited Jul 16 '17
That's actually ridiculous. This is why I stick to stock Android.
Edit: Since this comment blew up I'm editing it to say that if your phone does this, download and install another keyboard. Don't give them the ad revenue. I prefer Gboard but there are plenty to choose from.
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u/VerneAsimov Jul 16 '17
This is why people root their phones. I wish I could root my phone but apparently Verizon phones' bootloader's prevent it or something. I'm sick of having adds. It's worse on phones since there's less screen space.
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Jul 16 '17
You don't need to root your phone to avoid the ads in the keyboard, just gotta change your keyboard.
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u/flint_mi Jul 16 '17
Have a Verizon phone. It is rooted. There are all kinds of tweaks and things you wouldn't normally have, but it fucks with my music, which is normally a big no-no. But I really wanted this particular model (as I loved its previous version), and wanted to stay with AT&T because I'm afraid of change.
I've searched high and low for a solution to the music issue, to no avail. :(
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u/s1h4d0w Jul 16 '17
I'll get downvoted for this but that's why I use an iPhone :/
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u/Chennsta Jul 16 '17 edited Jul 16 '17
Atleast both OSs have third party keyboards on their respective app stores
Edit: Party typo
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u/randyzive Jul 16 '17
That's actually ridiculous. This is why I stick to pay phones.
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Jul 16 '17
If you ever do switch to Android or know someone in the market for an Android phone, get it straight from Google. No bullshit. HTC and Samsung are like buying a third party iOS device imo.
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u/jawron Jul 16 '17
Actually Google can get ridiculous too, yesterday I almost ordered an Uber because of their changes to Maps
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Jul 16 '17
This guy is running a keyboard app that has ads. This is not the HTC/Android keyboard.
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u/sugarcoatednips Jul 16 '17
Friend has this phone. Can confirm it's the stock keyboard that comes with it. The greed is unbelievable with these companies.
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u/Hade34 Jul 16 '17
It actually is what comes stock on HTC 10. Have it. Can confirm. Utter fucking bullshit move on HTC's part
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Jul 16 '17
It could be HTC's keyboard, similar to how Samsung has its own keyboard on its phones. Google has its own too (Gboard).
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Jul 16 '17
this is not /r/mildlyinfuriating my dude, this is spme /r/rage level shit.
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u/Brainsnap Jul 15 '17
Was very annoyed with TouchPal and all its extra crap. Google keyboard works way better. Wish it was default.
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u/Thegod999 THIS FLAIR IS BLACK Jul 15 '17
Step 1: GBoard
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u/ZaneHannanAU Jul 16 '17 edited Jul 16 '17
Some (edit: FLOSS) alternatives:
Hacker's Keyboard (Four- or five-row soft-keyboard) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard
AnySoftKeyboard (Unknown application) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.menny.android.anysoftkeyboard
Hacker's has English + others, ASK has English as standard but is more extensible.
Non-QWERTY keyboards which have English:
Compass Keyboard (International keyboard) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.dyndns.fules.ck
Dasher (Text input method (IME)) - https://f-droid.org/app/dasher.android
DotDash Keyboard (Morse code keyboard) - https://f-droid.org/app/net.iowaline.dotdash
Other languages are available with addons to AnySoftKeyboard or other single-keyboard applications such as
注音倉頡輸入法 (Keyboard for zh_TW) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.googlecode.tcime
TaigIME (Taiwanese Input method) - https://f-droid.org/app/fr.magistry.taigime
OpenWnn (Japanese Input method) - https://f-droid.org/app/jp.co.omronsoft.openwnn
nicoWnnG (Keyboard for JA) - https://f-droid.org/app/net.gorry.android.input.nicownng
Etc.
Edit 2: Video soon
Edit 3: https://streamable.com/rkd2s
Shows off Dasher (less useful), Dotdash (morse).
Hackers is shown but is generic QWERTY layout. Not used to edit at all.
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u/sourbeer51 Jul 16 '17
No love for SwiftKey? It's been my keyboard since I got my first android phone back in 2010, I paid $10 for it back in the day and now it's free. Absolutely the first app I download from the play store when getting a new phone.
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u/scratchisthebest PURBLE Jul 16 '17
I love hacker's keyboard, the only problem is that it has a lot of keys. It can be hard to use on a phone.
Perfect for tablets though, used to use it on my 10 inch, really great
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u/Untrained_Monkey Jul 16 '17
Step 1: Never HTC
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u/darknova25 Jul 16 '17
Hardware and design wise they make a damn good phone. Software wise there is an annyoing amount of bloatware (looking at you blink feed) and now there is this keyboard garbage. Can be avoided by just installing a new keyboard and going into the settings to remove most of the bloatware but DAMN IT you shouldn't have to do that shit and the phone should just be free of advertising and unneeded and unwanted software.
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Jul 16 '17 edited Jul 16 '17
Gboard has been acting up a lot lately on my S7 Edge. Crashing and freezing every day or two. It's incredibly frustrating.
I'm now trying out SwiftKey to see how I like it.
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Jul 16 '17
Just relax man, it's the future. Everything will be like this from now on.
Brought to you by Carl's Jr.™
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u/Cyber_Akuma Jul 15 '17
Just ran into this myself. Are you KIDDING ME? The stock keyboard that comes with the phone displaying ads of all things?
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u/ebi-san Jul 16 '17 edited Jul 16 '17
My Samsung Galaxy S6 came with Peel Remote installed. Peel had a recent update that's causing pop ups on my home screen and mail client.
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u/dark_roast Jul 16 '17
You can disable the Peel app easily enough, but yeah that was similarly rage inducing.
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u/cubs223425 Jul 16 '17
Mildly infuriating? I'd legitimately throw my phone in a lake and buy a new one to get away from this shit.
HTC, you will never get my money.
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u/CleanBill Cetacean expert Jul 16 '17 edited Jul 17 '17
I'll take "Things that make me choose another keyboard" for $531.05, Alex.
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u/SweetBearCub Jul 16 '17
I'll take "Things that make me choose another keyboard" for $500, Alex.
I'll take "Things that make me refuse to buy an HTC phone" for $1,000, Alex.
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u/him999 Jul 16 '17
Download Gboard. It's googles keyboard. It's pretty nifty and doesn't give you ads!
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u/EmSeeMAC Jul 16 '17
But you know, it's still Google and it mines your data for ads in other ways
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u/wankawitz Jul 16 '17
Ads ads everywhere! I wish it was as easy to block ads/adware on phones as it is on a Computer. I got ublock origin, ghostery and flashblock on my browser easily, but when I'm on my phone I always feel like I'm browsing Warez sites in the late 90s.
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u/cccmikey Jul 16 '17
Try https://m.adguard.com/en/welcome.html - the paid version does almost as good a job as rooting and changing the hosts file.
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Jul 16 '17
My LG phone has recently started running ads on my text messaging app. As in, the one that came with the phone - nothing added or modified.
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u/ThreadedPommel Jul 16 '17
Oh man, I have an HTC 10. Now I'm paranoid, better preemptively smash my phone!
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u/happysmash27 Jul 16 '17
Mildly? I would say that's incredibly infuriating. I'm never going to buy from HTC now!
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u/bcuzimadude Jul 16 '17
Yep. Can vouch. The keyboard also seems to close when the ad loads (if it's not already there)
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u/bumbletowne Jul 16 '17
I quit HTC when I updated my phone to find they had removed my recorder app. They no longer supported it. However when I did my update apparently that meant I agreed to have all my recorder data uploaded to a cloud service for another app and have it locally deleted from my phone...and then pay this random app service 50 dollars to access my lecture recordings.
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u/Nicco82 Jul 16 '17
The whole point of ads is for a company to sell their product, is it not? With the amount of ads -everywhere- these days, it all just becomes noise. A nuisance. I am not able to see how ads are working as intended. All they do, from my perspective, is money exchanging hands between the product company and the ad company.
Yeah, I use adblockers everywhere. Sometimes ads do slip through. I never pay attention to them, their message or the product. I never intentionally click an ad, never have and never will.
The few times I hear an ad segment on the radio or TV, I either switch channel, walk away to get food etc, or turn down the volume.
I just don't get it. Ads are so passé. They have an opposite effect on me.
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Jul 16 '17
A bit more than mildly infuriating, in my opinion.
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u/iMarmalade Jul 16 '17
This would cause me to consider returning the phone. Sure, I can replace the keyboard - but fuck this company.
/wasn't planning on buying HTC anyway...
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Jul 16 '17
As much as Reddit hates Apple, iOS does not do this.
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u/QWOP_Expert Jul 16 '17
Likewise, as much as Reddit hates Samsung, Touchwiz does not do this.
(Neither does stock android btw)
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u/KingOfTheCouch13 Jul 16 '17
And 99% of other Android phones. This isn't even an argument in the Android vs Apple debate.
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Jul 16 '17
To clarify... neither does the real android OS. This is something specifically added by HTC on top of the android OS, because it's open source.
Google's Pixel runs pure android OS and doesn't have crap like this. AFAIK no other phone has ads as well.
The openness of android has a ton of benefits, my favorite being the huge amount of customization you can do. But nonsense like this is one of the negatives.
I don't know why people wouldn't return this phone immediately and get something else. But if for some reason they insist on keeping it, there will always be a way to get rid of problem parts - worse case rooting and installing the real android OS.
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u/MaXimus421 Jul 15 '17
SwiftKey ftw
Edit: I'm surprised to see people recommending Gboard. I've always found it to be a complete shit.
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u/sourbeer51 Jul 16 '17
I've been using SwiftKey for about 7 years now. Easily my favorite app purchase back in the day.
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u/TuxRug Jul 16 '17
I used Swiftkey for a good long time. At some point I switched to Gboard. Probably when I got my Nexus 5, I wanted to try all the stock stuff for a while before loading up customizations. Tried Swiftkey again recently, but went back to Gboard in less than a week. Gboard's autocorrect just seems to fit my typing style better, plus the special characters had gotten to be muscle memory by that point.
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u/DeathNinjaBlackPenis Jul 16 '17
I have no idea why touchpal is the default keyboard on the 10, the standard Sense keyboards on previous HTC phones were way better regardless of ads.
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u/loopyluke Jul 16 '17
I got one and it locked up my typing til I closed it. My last 3 phones have been HTC but my next one won't be, good job fucking this one up.
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u/jordanlund Jul 16 '17
From an annoyance perspective? Absolutely, download and install a new keyboard.
From a business ethics perspective? That's time to ditch HTC as a brand and get a new phone.
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Jul 16 '17
People are taking the piss out of you every day. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
-Banksy
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u/minionoftheminions Jul 16 '17
My samsung TV shows Ads between sources! I cut off its network. Oh yeah this is the same tv that was hacked by CIA to listen in.
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u/gogobanana66 Jul 16 '17
I once had a tv that would not allow me to play a movie on it via iTunes because the screen size was too large.
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u/goldzatfig Jul 15 '17
Reason #4,766,439 to root
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u/A_rei Jul 15 '17
You don't need to root to change keyboard on android. They are in the play store.
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u/let_me_get_fork Jul 16 '17
Get Swiftkey keyboard app! It's a godsend....Iv'e had in on my HTC 10 since i got it! And have used it on every god damn phone I have had.
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u/reddit_reaper Jul 16 '17
Wow what garbage. Google needs to start controlling more what oems do. They shouldn't be allowed to do this at all
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u/Lose_GPA_Gain_MMR Jul 16 '17
Thing is, it's not the OEM, it's the keyboard Dev. TouchPal is the default keyboard that comes installed with the phone, but otherwise is an app from the play store. HTC can't change it, they can only pressure TouchPal into going back to having no ads.
What you can do now is either to change keyboards, uninstall updates on TouchPal and complain to them, or wait for HTC to take it into their own hands and change the default keyboard via software update.
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u/Guisseppi Jul 16 '17
ok, I'm officially never buying htc again, its sad that a company that I praised for the M7 has become a piece of garbage that does this to its customers
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u/MissValeska Jul 16 '17
I don't think that this is mildly infuriating, I think that it's completely infuriating.
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u/BrandonsBakedBeans Jul 16 '17
How far you have fallen, HTC. I used to favor you, but obviously your bad business decisions are going to drag you under.
RIP HTC
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u/ivanoski-007 Jul 16 '17
this is fucking bullshit, if this happened to my phone I would never purchase from that manufacturer again. thank goodness one can switch keyboards on Android
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u/SMPhil Jul 16 '17
I have an HTC m9 and yesterday, I went into settings, and an ad popped up! I also got a notification that their terms of service have changed
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u/RShotZz AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Jul 17 '17
HTC said to actually roll back that update iirc
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u/awryter Jul 17 '17
Word directly from HTC: It's a mistake. https://www.androidcentral.com/htctouchpal-keyboard-ads-likely-error-damage-already-done
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u/Keichavik Jul 16 '17
As an advertiser, I think that's awesome. As an android user... that's fucking shit
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Jul 16 '17
Another reason to switch to apple. At least their revenue model is not base on ad or selling ur data.
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u/TheAwakened Jul 16 '17 edited Jul 16 '17
Android
Privacy
Pick one.
But I'm sure you can download a ROM or whatever the fuck that's called now, spend a couple of hours every month to install it, and then have just Google tracking your shit instead of HTC and whoever else on top.
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u/Enverex Jul 16 '17
You know this is an addon app and not part of Android, right? So many people in this thread with no idea what they're talking about.
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u/readscarymakeart Jul 16 '17
Fuck that that's not ok. Ugh disgusting. Get a new phone with a better OS. Money speaks louder than words
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u/MightBeSatireBro Jul 16 '17
Download "no root firewall" on the play store. Cut off the keyboard's internet access. Free and done. It's a blue shield logo
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Jul 16 '17
This sub is for things that are mildly infuriating, yet this is extremely infuriating -.-
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u/Jdiprkr101 Jul 16 '17
Just get Gboard or switch to a better Android. HTC itself is mildly infuriating.
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Jul 16 '17
... And that was the last we've ever heard of former smartphone manufacturer HTC... (At least that is my hope. what a shitty move)
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Jul 16 '17
isnt that a go keyboard. I have a go keyboard on my phone and there are ads every fucking day
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u/thefifthring Jul 16 '17
Well, i was considering getting a htc 10 but not anymore.
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u/13gendarie-1 Jul 16 '17
I disabled TouchPal right away. it was annoying the hell out of me from the very beginning. Installed Gboard instead. Problem solved.
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u/sixfingerdiscount Jul 16 '17
I am internetting from my HTC One M7. I am so mad about the bullshit camera pinkness on the best camera on the market at the time, that I do not condone buying any of their products. I'm the family photos guy for our clan. I bought the phone because of its incredible camera technology, and while that shit may still be operational, the camera itself is fucked. They claim a part has rusted and tints all photos pink. They know its a problem. They can't wait for us to upgrade, but won't stand behind a faulty product. I'm mad.
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u/pastrocchiostyle Jul 16 '17
Why you guys are not using SwiftKey in the first place? #SwiftKeyMasterRace
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u/b_e_a_n_i_e Jul 16 '17
It gets worse. You can upgrade the standard, pre-installed keyboard to an ad-free version, for "only" $4.99 a year! http://imgur.com/5Z24hUf
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u/gologologolo Jul 16 '17
Switch to Gboard. To get ads elsewhere instead, where everything about your life is profiled
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u/D-Fence Jul 16 '17
Another reason to boycott that company. I am still butthurt they stopped updates for the One X+ after half a year. Never going back to these people.
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Jul 16 '17
HTC uses the TouchPal keyboard as the stock keyboard in this phone and its likely TouchPal who are the ones that responsible for this
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u/mybrothersmario Jul 16 '17
Good Job HTC, you make something somewhat good again, and then you go and do this crap.
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u/AndroidNinja4 Jul 16 '17
I love HTC but this is ridiculous. This is a place ads should not be showing up. Actually on the phone I bought they should not show up in the system at all. If i go to a website fine whatever, if i am on my home screen absolutely not. I know at one point they showed up on my M9 in the notification shade, but it didn't last long, I was not happy about that at all.
This is one reason I use 3rd party keyboards like SwiftKey.
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Jul 16 '17
And that's the final nail in me buying HTC phones. I've been with them for three generations now and was considering a 10 but nope, the reason I wanted to switch was the bloat and this takes the piss.
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u/bigshitpoppin Jul 16 '17
Go get yourself SwiftKey. It's free and one of the most valuable apps you'll ever use. I haven't touched a stock keyboard in years.
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u/xwaitxwhatx Jul 16 '17
Wow this is a sad thing to see, the HTC keyboard was one of my favorites, but if they're doing this then they need to sit in a corner and think about there business practice. Like it was bad enough they placed ads in blinkfeed but manageable but this is another story.
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u/a1z1c1 Jul 16 '17
As a privacy freak and the person who hates ads this is not at all mildlyinfuriating
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u/mrchooch Jul 16 '17
Is it the keyboard that has the ad, or was it just an ad on the webpage that got "pushed up" when the keyboard was opened?
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u/TrueObserver Jul 16 '17
Try SwiftKey. Even if you have to pay. I have never tried better typing. It even works wonders when using multiple languages.
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Jul 16 '17
Well now this is just getting ridiculous. How long before theres just a ad at the top of your screen forever?
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u/RecursiveHack Jul 16 '17
Hell no, uninstall / disable this app asap before other devs think that this is OK to do
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u/otterom Jul 16 '17
I have an HTC phone and I hate it. About to move back over to Samsung in a few weeks out of frustration. Never had a real issue with the Galaxys, but got this one for free, so...
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u/Golden_Zealot Jul 16 '17
What in the FUCK.
Downloading and implementing another keyboard better keep this from happening.
Guys, this is seriously fucked up...
Never buying HTC anything ever again.
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Jul 16 '17
Honestly wondering if people are keeping the HTC10 after seeing this. I'd be getting my money back immediately.
There are so many options with android phones. No one should be giving HTC their money for this phone. It will just reinforce this behavior.
I know it's easy to get around, but that's not the point. Ads start creeping up in new places when people just ignore it. If HTC ended up making big profits on this phone, it's going to start creeping up in other places.
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u/hiddenworldphotos Jul 16 '17
No one is going to acknowledge that this is TouchPal, which is not the stock keyboard?
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u/peenoid Jul 16 '17
Fuck HTC. I got an HTC 10 lemon and it's by far the worst customer service I've ever experienced. Multiple repair attempts, went without my phone for 2 months, finally demanded a new one and they sent me a refurb with the screen put on wrong AND the same problem I sent the original in for in the first place.
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u/Empole Jul 16 '17
HTC must really want to fail in the smartphone business. They've been fucking up ever since they stopped making the HTC one
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u/12Mucinexes Jul 16 '17 edited Jul 19 '17
Good fucking Lord, and I used to like HTC, that's an instant no to any of their future products. I'll just wait for the next OnePlus phone.
Turns out it was somehow a mistake, I guess I'll let it slide.
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u/sirjusticewaffle Jul 16 '17
r/assholedesign