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Cake day: June 29th, 2026

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  • My previous employer upgraded everyone’s work phones early this year. Some sort of MOTO phone. Im dispatched, this phone is given to me for navigation. This thing was so overloaded with ads that I couldn’t use Google maps for a single trip without giant full screen ads popping up for some MOTO shit. It’s the actual phone manufacturer shoving ads up while a navigation app has the screen forced on.

    I’m no phone dev, but there’s no way the phone manufacturer who modifies the boot image and packs 20 uninstallable apps DOESNT know when the phone is being used for navigation. I would say the opposite, I bet android makes it very clear why the screen is stuck on. And the phone manufacturer says hey let’s advertise right now, it’s the perfect time.

    How many deaths can be directly tied to this advertising campaign. Like so wildly directly, I’m not sure how advertising can more directly and immediately cause death like this. There’s a MOTO dev somewhere that should be looking at hard time