Except that every “glance” wallpaper has a small embedded ad which is just another way for Samsung to monetize their customers after they have already sold them a phone. Glance is a bundled software in Samsung phones that gives you new and exciting wallpapers every time you turn on your phone. Glance - An ad server masquerading as a wallpaper service

Moj, Snapchat, MX Takatak, Josh, Dailyhunt and more. See the below screenshot of the initial setup of a Samsung A50 running OneUI 3. The user has absolutely no provision to stop these from being installed as you cannot even get to the home screen without accepting the terms to have it installed. There is no option for users to opt out of this behavior somehow.Ī lot of these apps are installed when during the initial setup of the phone, with more to come once an internet connection is available. Uninstalling is just a temporary solution as they install themselves back periodically. What’s worse is that these apps install themselves automatically with the help of an inbuilt Samsung app called “Appcloud”.

Something that we had only seen previously in lower-end phones of MI and such. Samsung and External Bloatwareįrom One UI, particularly OneUI 3, Samsung started to aggressively bundle third-party apps with their phones. A welcome upgrade that improved the performance and included a more refined user interface from Android 9 Pie onwards.

Samsung Experience, the predecessor to One UIįast forward to 2018 and we get One UI, the successor to Samsung Experience.

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