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

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

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Post by 2sk21 »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #5
helloguillecl wrote: post #3

Also, they will endlessly re-suscribe you to their spam even after you unsubscribe. Some months after unsubscribing from friend's posts email alerts, I changed my password to something I did not want to remember, only to be automatically re-subscribed, without notice, to their post updates.

There's a setting I saw on Instagram about this where it will send you emails if you're inactive for too long. It's an entirely distinct setting from all other email spam. There was one setting on Instagram I would toggle, and come back two seconds later to find it retoggled, it was to suggest my account to other people to follow, I've managed to acquire like 20 follow requests from total strangers, I can't make it s…

I'm testing this hypothesis. I have not logged into Facebook for three months and am still getting daily emails with links to posts

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

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Post by jessaustin »

helloguillecl wrote: post #3

Also, they will endlessly re-suscribe you to their spam even after you unsubscribe. Some months after unsubscribing from friend's posts email alerts, I changed my password to something I did not want to remember, only to be automatically re-subscribed, without notice, to their post updates.

These emails really have to be dealt with in your spam filter.

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

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Post by apatters »

charlysl wrote: post #4

Am I the only one experiencing "Facebook is so bad" fatigue? I am not implying that there should be no criticism, I believe quite the opposite, but I think we have heard all of this before, many times over.

As long as they force their shitty software down people's throats every day (literally what the article is about), people will keep complaining about them. Just like everyone who's forced to use Comcast complains.

In fact it's mainly abusive monopolies that tend to receive this nonstop criticism. Ordinary crappy companies go out of business because people can switch to their alternatives, then no one complains about them anymore.

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

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Post by winningcontinue »

charlysl wrote: post #4

Am I the only one experiencing "Facebook is so bad" fatigue? I am not implying that there should be no criticism, I believe quite the opposite, but I think we have heard all of this before, many times over.

you're head of the curve. by the time you're sick of hearing it, many people are starting to realize it and then even more follow.

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

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Post by vnw »

helloguillecl wrote: post #3

Also, they will endlessly re-suscribe you to their spam even after you unsubscribe. Some months after unsubscribing from friend's posts email alerts, I changed my password to something I did not want to remember, only to be automatically re-subscribed, without notice, to their post updates.

Unsubscribing from these emails (Facebook, Twitter, idk, doesn't matter) is a chore, they make you go through lots of hoops and then they ignore the request and keep spamming you anyway. Also, by unsubscribing you're revealing to them that you are opening and reading those emails, which is something you probably don't want to disclose.

The best solution is to simply configure a filter in your email client so those emails go to the trash directly.

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

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Post by vnw »

charlysl wrote: post #4

Am I the only one experiencing "Facebook is so bad" fatigue? I am not implying that there should be no criticism, I believe quite the opposite, but I think we have heard all of this before, many times over.

I am tired too. I am an adult and I don't need the media, who are another scummy and immoral business by themselves, to tell me who I have to hate.

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

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Post by helloguillecl »

I see all this dark patters and user-unfriendly tactics as a way to deceive the market with metrics that wont matter if in the long term you lose user's trust.

It might increase the perceived value of a company to retain some users, but in the long term such tactics are damaging the company reputation, thus effectively diminishing the value of the company/product.

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

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Post by scarface74 »

apatters wrote: post #13
charlysl wrote: post #4

Am I the only one experiencing "Facebook is so bad" fatigue? I am not implying that there should be no criticism, I believe quite the opposite, but I think we have heard all of this before, many times over.

As long as they force their shitty software down people's throats every day (literally what the article is about), people will keep complaining about them. Just like everyone who's forced to use Comcast complains. In fact it's mainly abusive monopolies that tend to receive this nonstop criticism. Ordinary crappy companies go out of business because people can switch to their alternatives, then no one complains about…

Don’t just blame Facebook. It’s the fault of everyone who buys a product from a company whose business model is more complex than you give them money and they give you stuff. In this case, every Android phone maker except for probably Google and Google only sells around 3 million phones a year.

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

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #2

> Bloomberg spoke to a U.S. owner of a Samsung Galaxy S8 who, after reading forum discussions about Samsung devices, found his own pre-loaded Facebook app could not be removed. It could only be “disabled”, with no explanation available to him as to what exactly that meant. First thing I do when I upgrade my LG phone (I've had the LG G2, LG G5, and now the LG G7, I don't think it was preinstalled in the G2 but I can't…

The bundled crapware is the reason I switched from Samsung to OnePlus. I've actually gone one step further and run LineageOS now.

I've been an Android user since the original Samsung Galaxy, but to be honest my next phone will probably be an iPhone.

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

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Post by LeonM »

It's not just FB, my Samsung S9 came preloaded with 'undeletable' Microsoft apps too. But this is nothing new, Samsung phones have came preloaded with bloat since forever.

When buying a new phone I always spend some time deleting all Samsung, Microsoft, Facebook and carrier related apps. Yes, you can delete 'undeletable' apps through ADB, without rooting the device.

  pm uninstall -k --user 0
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