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minus-squarevoxel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 year agoor carrier bloatware. Samsung has it’s thingy like that (only on A series) but it installs TikTok during the setup, nothing else.
minus-squareRouxibeau@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoFold 3 here. It tries to do a device cleanup periodically and will try to sneak tiktok and other shit on here.
minus-squareno banana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoI only had to tell my A model on first startup that I wanted none of what it was serving and it has kept its word ever since.
minus-squareTom2day@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoPerhaps but the applications displayed by OP would certainly not be installed by a carrier or Samsung. I’ve seen Facebook come pre-installed and other main stream garbage but the above is something completely different.
minus-squarevoxel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoUS carriers do regularly do shit like this.
minus-squareTom2day@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoLook at the title “Mobile Services Manager”…I suppose if you are signed up with some 3rd rate carrier and you hooked up via esim but very sketchy.
or carrier bloatware. Samsung has it’s thingy like that (only on A series) but it installs TikTok during the setup, nothing else.
Fold 3 here. It tries to do a device cleanup periodically and will try to sneak tiktok and other shit on here.
I only had to tell my A model on first startup that I wanted none of what it was serving and it has kept its word ever since.
Perhaps but the applications displayed by OP would certainly not be installed by a carrier or Samsung. I’ve seen Facebook come pre-installed and other main stream garbage but the above is something completely different.
US carriers do regularly do shit like this.
Look at the title “Mobile Services Manager”…I suppose if you are signed up with some 3rd rate carrier and you hooked up via esim but very sketchy.