Facebook is a company that enjoys a relatively huge install base and you’d be hard pressed to find someone in this modern era who doesn’t have a Facebook account. People either install the app willingly to their phones and in a lot of cases, you will find the app already pre-installed for you.
However, the latter scenario is usually pretty controversial. In some cases, you can uninstall the app but in a lot of cases, the app cannot be removed and you are forced to disable it instead if you don’t want to use the app.
Bloomberg reported that some Samsung Galaxy users took to Twitter to complain that they were not able to delete Facebook from their phones. Some wanted to delete the app because the felt like the News Feed was full of negative stuff and couldn’t delete Facebook and was bothered by the fact he could only disable it only.
@SamsungMobileUS Why am I not able to delete the Facebook app from my S7 Edge? The app is a privacy threat. If I can't delete it, this will be the last Samsung product I ever own. It only allows me to "disable" the app, which i'm sure doesn't fix any of the privacy issues.
— Justin McMurry (@BoutSebm) December 6, 2018
@SamsungMobileIN very slimy sneaking in @facebook and @instagram on to my phone w/o consent under the #SamsungUltra apps. I can't even delete or force stop them. Been a Samsung customer for 10 years. Time to move on.
— Gopinath Pandalai (@gopibella) October 29, 2018
The interesting thing is that Samsung said that when you disable Facebook, it is no longer running. A Facebook spokesperson told Bloomberg said that the disabled version of the app acts like it has been deleted so it doesn’t continue collecting data or sending information back to Facebook. Apparently the deals they make with manufacturers are meant to give consumers ‘the best phone experience right after opening the box’ and you can understand such decisions cannot sit well with people.
You can understand why such arrangements can make people mad. If you cannot delete an app, it means that you don’t have full control over your experience on your shiny new phone and it feels like they don’t want to leave your phone and away from your precious data.
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I don’t have a Samsung, but I can advise anyone who can to delete the app! Log in in chrome instead. Saves on space and data too
Do you want unwanted apps on your phone, I don’t! You should check this new OS for smartphones called /e/. It is focused around privacy and free from the Google bloatware and no forced software like Facebook. It doesn’t track you all day and doesn’t scan your phone for your private data. You can still install Android apps like Uber and so on. I’ve been using it on my Samsung Galaxy S9 and I’m not going back to stock Android. Here is their web site: https://e.foundation
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