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Installing Spam and Spyware after security update

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athreeiron
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What gives you the right to do a 'security update' on my phone and then install spam and spyware games while you're at it? What in the world makes you think that people are OK with this? 

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Oxford
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It's not Samsung, it's your cell carrier that puts in all of it! It might be wise to do some research before you post.
Carir
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Thanks for the peanut gallery post... šŸ‘
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realaud
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If you have a carrier phone, it's your carrier who loads "extras" onto the updates.  You have to send your objections to them, but I believe it's part of the contract you sign when you make the purchase.  Buying a carrier version of a phone, makes it a convenient, easy to manage purchase, but it comes at the cost of the carrier having control of your phone and its features. 

 

Even if it *was* Samsung adding these extras, it would still be spelled out in the purchase terms that you would have had to agree to and, therefore, that would give them the right.

user1TJPU5fjVr
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Samsung Unlocked image comes with very little bloat honestly.
meself
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It's the carrier not Samsung
king_james17
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I know T mobile had a data breach recently, and few other service providers
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meself
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That wouldn't be adding games or apps which I think they might do but the breach you mentioned is personal account information not any update
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cu812oh
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Read the small print, which none of us do.
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