Samsung's new partnership with META is a terrible deal for end users.

[Shrekopher]

Samsung should ends its relationship with META as soon as possible.

Marketing Samsung devices as secure device with industry leading encryption then allowing a partnership with a company like META is counter productive and shady. 

Samsung devices used to come pre-installed with Facebook and the community had an uproar about not being able to uninstall the application, now just a few years later they are at it again with the foldable devices. 

THIS NEEDS TO STOP. NOW. 

If I am paying $1k for a device I do not want some 3rd party having access to anything on it out of the box. It's clearly a money grab by Samsung and as a long time customer it is discouraging. 

[Tom6068]

Where does that apply to the device? I have no instance of Facebook or Meta on my phone.

[productfred]

It comes with a stub to download Facebook (meaning a shortcut). And if you go into Settings -> Apps and show system apps, you'll see several Facebook services running 24/7 that are hidden from the user. You can disable them with no ill effects, but they're not exposed to the user under normal conditions.

[notforhire]

probably better posted over in the Members forum, since this has nothing to do with the beta.

[gabe80million]

Agreed

[DD7227]

The deal is simply based around the same deal they made with Snapchat last year. It's helps improve features but while it is a topic or subject people should know about it isn't beta related.

[PossiblyLucky]

I'm permanently banned from Facebook, so I don't want that trash in my phone. 😂

[egor0128]

All I can say is they are all bad I use none of them