Google today remotely installed deezer on my phone. Anyone else here that had that happen?

  • weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    You keep ignoring everyone who says that but I will still repeat it: it’s not Google that installs third-party (!) apps on your phone.

    It is really common in the other hand for OEMs (Samsung, Sony, Xiaomi, …) to install additional apps to earn money through “partnerships”.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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      21 hours ago

      When I contracted in the USA, they provided a Verizon phone. There was a system app called something like App Manager, which was a Verizon app, installed as a system app, that bloated your phone with crap like Peel Remote, NFL, Amazon, and other nonsense, all mostly also installed as system apps. Once I disabled this App Manager, this bloat shite stopped. Try looking for something installed as a system app that didn’t come directly from Google.