Installing Spam and Spyware

[athreeiron]

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? 

[Oxford]

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]

Thanks for the peanut gallery post... 👏

[realaud]

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]

Samsung Unlocked image comes with very little bloat honestly.

[meself]

It's the carrier not Samsung

[king_james17]

I know T mobile had a data breach recently, and few other service providers

[meself]

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

[cu812oh]

Read the small print, which none of us do.