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Installing Spam and Spyware

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athreeiron
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What gives you the right to do a 'security update' on my phone and then install spam and spyware games while you're at it? What in the world makes you think that people are OK with this? 

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Oxford
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It's not Samsung, it's your cell carrier that puts in all of it! It might be wise to do some research before you post.
realaud
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If you have a carrier phone, it's your carrier who loads "extras" onto the updates.  You have to send your objections to them, but I believe it's part of the contract you sign when you make the purchase.  Buying a carrier version of a phone, makes it a convenient, easy to manage purchase, but it comes at the cost of the carrier having control of your phone and its features. 

 

Even if it *was* Samsung adding these extras, it would still be spelled out in the purchase terms that you would have had to agree to and, therefore, that would give them the right.