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. 

[Av3rag3Jo3]

This is not related to the Beta but to think that samsung is the only OEM without protection from companies that track like Facebook (Meta) is not true. I have no Facebook app installed on my unlocked phone and on a DNS level, I can see Facebook is doing something in the background. So if you are concerned about 3rd parties, my best recommendation is to use a service like Blokada 5 Plus VPN (do not use play store version) that actually blocks these trackers in apps. Or use DDG app tracking protection for free paired with cloudfare private DNS. Smarthings allows Microsoft to track you as well.

I have even seen this trackers on my fiancés iPhone 13 pro with Apples "Effective" app tracking protection turned on. I know this was a mouthful but I hope I helped identify a couple of steps you can take if you are concerned about your data privacy. overall, Facebook is still getting data on most phones with or without an app. Kinda sad.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/enable-private-dns-with-1-1-1-1-on-android-9-pie/

https://spreadprivacy.com/introducing-app-tracking-protection/

https://blokada.org/