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Updated my Samsung phone and it installed unwanted apps (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by SaltyEggs@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Samsung has been a malicious bad actor for a while now. It's not just phones; they also pulled shit like retroactively adding ads to people's smart TVs etc.

(Also, even their "dumb" products, like appliances, are designed to fail just outside warranty. If you don't believe me, take a look at my washer's spider arm, which failed catastrophically due to corrosion even though nothing else in the machine had so much of a speck of corrosion on it. Samsung is clearly capable of specifying corrosion-resistant materials and chose not to on purpose in order to create a failure point.)

Everyone should completely boycott Samsung.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Your corrosion issue is due to dissimilar metals which, when in contact with one another, begin corroding immediately. They chose those materials knowing full well what would happen.

Their appliances are absolute garbage and I've read that many repair places refuse to work on them because they're built so poorly.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Straight up gambling apps too

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I think there is an app called app install. Disable that shit

[–] sloonark@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of the many reasons I will only ever buy Pixel phones. No bloatware.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I'm on a Pixel 4a right now running CalyxOS. I relly want to get a FairPhone next tho. Repairability is awesome

[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

At this point I only buy Smartphones with Android One label (Stock Android without anything changed). Samsung especially is full of bloat.

[–] AbsentApe@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's carrier based. I've had Samsung phones almost exclusively and as long as I buy unlocked I never get unwanted apps.

[–] silent_squirrel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

There is still a lot of stuff preinstalled which could be considered unwanted by a lot of people (TikTok, Netflix, Spofify, multiple MS apps, Disney+, Facebook, Meta Services, ...)

[–] roht@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Samsung is pretty much notorious for this, especially in developing countries where they bundle in every third-party service, PayLater app, shitty mobile game, etc alongside a new device. The only reason they are seen as preferable is that other companies are doing worse (see: Xiaomi).

[–] Resistentialism@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know. Samsung seems like a very good company.

And I'm not saying that as they have an army and access to my location.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Correction: a good hardware company. That is of course if we disregard them turning some phones into bombs. But they also make screens, RAM and so on. I just always hated all their software. It's utter garbage.

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are a lot of negative things that I will say about Apple and iOS, but this would NEVER EVER fly on an iPhone. The fact that we just kind of accept it on Android is infuriating.

[–] Kleinbonum@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

For the exact same reason, I've only been using Pixel devices for years now. Before that, Nexus devices.

Every now and then, I get interested in what Samsung has to offer, and their top end devices are without a don't often among the very best out there.

But it's shit like pre-installed apps, Samsung's tooth-and-nail fight against unlocking the bootloader, bloatware that re-enables or installs itself with system updates, and generally Samsung's attempts to pull users into it's ecosystem and sell them more Samsung stuff that makes me keep it at arms length.

[–] MrMamiya@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Samsung makes nice phones that I don’t buy for this reason. Apple doesn’t allow this. Pixel is another option if you don’t wanna go through the hassle of changing ecosystems.