• voxel
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    or carrier bloatware. Samsung has it’s thingy like that (only on A series) but it installs TikTok during the setup, nothing else.

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      Fold 3 here. It tries to do a device cleanup periodically and will try to sneak tiktok and other shit on here.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          mine had a preloaded hidden app called AppCloud that was responsible for installing tiktok on first boot (without an option to disable it, because it’s marked an “Essential” app) and kept periodically sending a notification asking me to “finish setting up the phone” by installing like 10 bloatware apps.
          disabling it is three clicks though, and all bloat can be fully uninstalled.

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      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.

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        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.

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        US carriers do regularly do shit like this.