Confused About Recent Ad/Bloat Discussions..

Anonymous962 · 2025-10-28T12:40:41+00:00

Ich muss fragen... In letzter Zeit habe ich die ganze Diskussion darüber gesehen, wie Nothing „Werbung und Bloatware“ in ihr Betriebssystem einbaut. Ich verwende das Nothing Phone 3(a) und habe noch nie ein einziges Stück Software gesehen, das als Werbung oder Bloatware angesehen werden könnte. Ich habe sogar die Beta-Software ausprobiert und auch hier keine Anzeichen dafür gesehen. Alles, was ich von Google nicht wollte, habe ich einfach deaktiviert oder entfernt. Ich habe die Software, die ich verwenden möchte, blitzsauber installiert. Sind das alles Spekulationen über das kommende „Lite“-Telefon?

Anonymous962

I have to ask…

Lately I’ve been seeing all this conversation about Nothing putting “ads and bloatware” into their operating system.

I’m running the Nothing Phone 3(a) and I have never seen a single bit of software that would be considered advertising or bloatware. I even tried the beta software, and again I saw no evidence of this.

Anything I didn’t want from Google, I simply disabled or removed. Installed the software I want to use, clean as a whistle.

Is this all speculation with the coming “lite” phone?

Coldpaw

Anonymous962 You don’t see it because it is a feature of the upcoming Nothing OS 4.0, it has been added to the latest beta release. So far it is optional, meaning it is disabled by default and you have to actively enable it.

Not only it raises the question what else they are going to add in the future, but it’s also sad to see they spent development time on such a feature while other long requested improvements (for the lockscreen) keep getting ignored.

Anonymous903

Lock Glimpse requires you to agree to an ad firm’s policies (who are providing the wallpapers) so people are worried in the future Nothing might start sending your data to them

saxman

What is confusing for you ?

They added this lock screen wallpapers with adds in form of a text and you have to agree to some Chinese company tos, and they didn’t stop with this being just an app, they made it part of settings. Tbh I think if it was not part of settings(forced upon us) it would not make so much fuss, and they stated they will in future add Instagram Facebook or whatever in the OS. So bloatware and addware.

CMF1_hacker

I’m on the fence. If I can disable and ensure that no data is transfer, then I don’t care. However, there are several companies out there that transfer your data to third-parties regardless of not using options. For example, I’m not convinced that I could remove all Google software from NOTHING OS and not have my data transferred to Google.

I am OK with this as Google provides useful software.

The key question with the not-enabled-by-default option is can I prevent my data from being transferred. That’s the crux of the argument. For all the belly-aching here, no one has posted the actual T&C’s they agreed to and didn’t agree to. Nor has anyone monitored network transfer to these third-parties and whether it really is disabled when not using the software.

I personally like NOS, so I don’t care that much and I speculate that NTL has to do this as part of accepting the 200MM, so I’m onboard.

Essentially, I believe without doing this, NTL would cease to exist.

Maggi Goreng

Anonymous962

Thank you to everyone for clarifying. I never took advantage of the lock screen feature because I don’t like things on my lock screen. So it’s probably just a simple case of me overlooking it because I don’t use those kinds of features.

But yes, I can understand how there would be some concern amongst the community that Nothing could change their principles about their software, data collection, to whom they share our data with, and current mission credo.

If this became the norm for Nothing in the future, I would seriously reconsider my choice of mobile device manufacturer…