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Interesting to see Galaxy M series on the list, they're made in India/Made for India smartphones, Decent hardware but subsidized with bloat. The Samsung One UI
by Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
Interesting to see Galaxy M series on the list, they're made in India/Made for India smartphones, Decent hardware but subsidized with bloat. The Samsung One UI in the M series seems completely different to One UI from other Samsung devices, especially from other countries.
It has all the international data hoarder apps and their local equivalents preloaded in the firmware. Apps install notifications from Samsung store masquerade as security updates notification.
Even after disabling the bloat I could, the phone shows about 3000 requests from the blocked list/day on Pi hole. This kind of discriminatory behavior is unacceptable but goes unnoticed as Samsung is pulling this off only in India AFAIK.
- solarkraft 6y ago> data hoarder apps Do you mean spyware? Data hoarding is a term usually applied to archiving public media, not personal data.
- Abishek_Muthian 6y agoTrue, But I've seen data hoarding used negatively to imply anti-privacy behavior[1]. [1] 'Facebook has suspended ‘tens of thousands’ of apps suspected of hoarding data'- https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/20/facebook-suspends-apps-hoarding-data/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/20/facebook-suspends-apps-hoa...
- vitorgrs 6y agoGalaxy M are made in Brazil, in Brazil (just like any other Samsung HW here)
- Tijdreiziger 6y agoI'm not familiar with the M series, but isn't it possible to disable the apps from the settings? E.g. on my (European) Galaxy S9, Facebook services are preinstalled, but I can go to Settings > Apps, choose 'Show system apps' [in the 'three dots' menu], then choose (e.g.) Facebook Services > Disable.