Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook

guest · Jan 9, 2019

Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook
January 8, 2019
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-users-get-a-shock-they-can-t-delete-facebook

He tried to remove the program from his phone, but the chatter proved true -- it was undeletable. He found only an option to "disable," and he wasn’t sure what that meant.

“It just absolutely baffles me that if I wanted to completely get rid of Facebook that it essentially would still be on my phone, which brings up more questions,” Winke said in an interview.
“Can they still track your information, your location, or whatever else they do? We the consumer should have say in what we want and don’t want on our products.”

Facebook declined to provide a list of the partners with which it has deals for permanent apps, saying that those agreements vary by region and type.
Consumer-advocacy groups have been skeptical of such arrangements for years, according to Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy.
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guest · Jan 9, 2019

Facebook is the new crapware
January 9, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/facebook-is-the-new-crapware/

After Bloomberg’s report was published, mobile research and regular Facebook technical tipster, Jane Manchun Wong, chipped in via Twitter to comment — describing the pre-loaded Facebook app on Samsung devices as “stub”.

Aka “basically a non-functional empty shell, acts as the placeholder for when the phone receives the ‘real’ Facebook app as app updates”.

Samsung only ship the stub version of Facebook on their phones. It’s basically a non-functional empty shell, acts as the placeholder for when the phone receives the “real” Facebook app as app updates https://t.co/KHdkF9fFyK
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) January 8, 2019
Crapware is named crapware for a reason. Having paid to own hardware, why should people be forever saddled with unwanted software, stub or otherwise?

Another interesting question the matter raises is how permanent Facebook pre-installs are counted in Facebook’s user metrics, and indeed for ad targeting purposes.
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