[kictanet] Samsung Users Can't Delete Facebook, making it crapware to users who don't need it

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

Facebook has inked an unknown number of agreements with Android smartphone
makers, mobile carriers and OSes around the world to not only pre-load
Facebook’s eponymous app on hardware but render the software *undeleteable*;
a permanent feature of your device, whether you like how the company’s app
can track your every move and digital action or not.

Bloomberg spoke to a U.S. owner of a Samsung Galaxy S8 who, after reading
forum discussions about Samsung devices, found his own pre-loaded Facebook
<https://crunchbase.com/organization/facebook>app could not be removed. It
could only be “disabled,” with no explanation available to him as to what
exactly that meant.

The Galaxy S8 retailed for $725+ when it went on sale in the U.S. two years
ago
<https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/20/samsung-galaxy-s8-and-galaxy-s8-now-on-sale/>
.

A Facebook spokesperson told Bloomberg that a disabled permanent app
doesn’t continue collecting data or sending information back to the
company, but declined to specify exactly how many such pre-install deals
Facebook has globally.

Samsung told the news organization it provides a pre-installed Facebook app
on “selected models” with options to disable it, adding that once disabled,
the app is no longer running.


https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/facebook-is-the-new-crapware/amp/
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