Talk:Peel Technologies

Lock screens, intrusive advertising, disabling screen input

Looks like it is morphing from a potentially useful thing to basically being malware. Been fighting with my phone for days, trying to figure out why a new lockscreen has appeared which prevents screen input & therefore makes the phone unusable. Turned out it was a bundled app called 'peel remote'. Tried killing the process but it keeps restarting by itself. Rolled it back to factory & disabled it (can't properly uninstall it because it is bundled), can now use my phone again. Samsung / Google ... if you read this, please remove it via the next monthly security update. 86.4.77.7 (talk) 20:54, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

(we are now at 2020 and peel remote still here) This wiki needs updating to state the current problems with samsung still insisting peel remote been baked into the phone (if it has a IR blaster), as the first thing you should do when you get a samsung phone is disable this app that 120 million users don't use this app (that be 120 million users who haven't worked out how to disable it or they just say 120m because they had not disabled it right away so one ad impression counts as active peel remote in the last 2-3 years) my quite smashed S5 just updated the Peel remote app and the First thing it did was place a overlay advert to the left of the phone (note Google has already banned the app from the google play store and can only be automatically updated from samsung store) should note that this phone has been ignored for last month and only now has it auto updated and auto launched it self so the fact it does this seems to be samsung have an invested interest in keeping this dreadful app active ,, for everything samsung has done having peel remote on your phone is nearly worst thing you can have on your phone (ad infected wallpaper apps and adware apps coming after it), Leexgx (talk) 09:21, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Flagged for COI issues

Complicating matters,recent editors have been removing critical but reliably sourced facts in order to sanitize public opinion of their rogue app.This is exactly why I've flagged this article for possible COI issues;and yes I have used a mobile device that had this pre-installed(a now-bricked Samsung Galaxy S4 Active).Ranma9617 (talk) 00:41, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Criticism

So, I've just done some clean-up, restored some refs and old information that some IPs took out with no edit summaries. However, I've noticed one complaint that was taken out, which actually has a website source:

In 2017, the Peel Remote Android app received strong criticism from many users who complained about the app forcing ads onto the devices lock screen. These ads would override the sleep mode of a device and drain the battery as well as interfering with other normal operations.

Now, I know this isn't a WP:RS by any definition, but looking at the refs in the article itself, including WP:SELFPUB... I guess it's the same, and will restore it later (or should we just take out even more poorly-sourced blurb from the article?). - ChrisWar666 (talk) 17:55, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

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