Yep, all they gotta do is well, very little.

Gotta wonder why they’re saying this now? What’s the agenda?

The ribbon is one thing, the flat design and obfuscating tools/settings are a far bigger issue.

Flat design may be less distracting to you but that also means it’s less clear, because there are fewer obvious demarcation.

I despise flat design, it’s downright awful design, and done for looks rather than functionality.

Even saying it’s “less distractive” supports this.

Microsoft also did this to obfuscate features, which is pretty apparent when you consider new users used to “discover” features via the menu system. I supported Office for MS in the early days, and this was a huge thing at the time. It was discussed heavily when training on new versions.

Except social media is a bane for kids, even moreso than for adults.

It’s a shit show.

Samsung from a phone vendor like Verizon is bloated, but not one from Samsung (well, except the Samsung crap like Bixby).

Depends on whether it comes from Samsung or via a phone company.

Either way, Universal Debloat Utility is your friend.

You don’t need a stingray to simply pickup cell broadcast which has the ID in it. Technically your phone is doing this, as the tower you connect to has an ID.

I suspect it works a lot ore than 30%

As you mentioned, cell ID is there too. Pretty easy to simply capture IMSI data (don’t even have to do anything, phones are alway broadcasting their ID).

Combine IMSI, BT, MAC, date/time, and boy you’ve got one helluva surveillance device.

Add in BT headphones, watches, etc, and you have even more data points to associate.

I wouldn’t be shopping there just because of that.