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		shados on March 25, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook scraped call, text message data for years... The first time I installed the Facebook app and saw the huge wall of permission requests (back before they had on demand permission requests and they all had to be up front), I noped out of that crap. Never installed the facebook app on any of my phones (In the odd event I REALLY need to check a cat picture on facebook, I use the browser version). Glad I went that route. Now though I got a Samsung phone that has the facebook app preinstalled, but I never opened it (and all the other preinstalled apps DONT have the permissions on by default...so I hope it's true of the FB app too)

virgilp on March 25, 2018 [–]

You can at least disable it (which I always do)

DrScump on March 25, 2018 | [–]

I hope the current controversy will inspire Samsung to take Facebook out of the mandatory bloatware set for all models.

grzm on March 25, 2018 | | [–]

Anyone have information on the financial arrangement (if any) between Samsung and Facebook to include the Facebook app in the bundle?

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