I bought a new fancy Samsung phone from the Vodafone shop and I asked if I could buy a screen protector. The guy at the shop looked a little bamboozled and indicated that such practices were for the historical pre-covid era, no-one in Australia uses screen protectors now. Phones come shipped with a very thin factory screen protector anyway, he said.

Am I just being an old, paranoid millennial whose head is stuck in an era where screen glass was easily scratched, or is it true that screen protectors are not really needed anymore? Is advising against screen protectors the latest sales technique in the retail recession, ensuring people will have to come back to get their blurry, scratched screens fixed?