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by gideonparanoid 3210 days ago
For some context: Peel Remote is an app for using the IR blaster to control your TV/DVR. HTC used to have their own app for it, but it got discontinued so they put up Peel Remote as the replacement.

I was about to consider this a shame, as HTC's own app was pretty good, but not sure if I would trust them not to put ads in it anyway now.
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JohnTHaller 3210 days ago
Samsung pulled the same thing years ago with the S4. They bundled "Beaming Service" to handle the IR blaster made by a third party company called MoBeam. MoBeam decided to start doing push ad notifications for their crappy coupon clipping app. After I was woken up after midnight by one, I decided I'd never buy a Samsung phone again. It couldn't be uninstalled or disabled. And this was before you could turn off notifications from a single app in Android.
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Al-Khwarizmi 3210 days ago
The keyboard mentioned in the OP is also a third-party app (TouchPal). HTC's own keyboard included in older models never had ads as far as I know.
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