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Samsung forces repair stores to destroy customer smartphones, iFixit ends cooperation (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 5 months ago

The use of aftermarket parts in repair is relatively common. This provision requires independent repair shops to destroy the devices of their own customers, and then to snitch on them to Samsung.

That's just pure evil and bully. If you have aftermarket parts they will destroy the device and force you to pay for it. This is the reason we need right to repair. Every consumer should support it.