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someNameIG06/04/20252 repliesview on HN

My Samsung phone has Netflix, Spotify, and some Microsoft stuff installed, but nothing from Meta.


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jeroenhd06/04/2025

I think Samsung stopped preinstalling Facebook's weird services a while back. Xiaomi still seems to be shipping Facebook last time I checked, though.

Even outside of Samsung a lot of "normal" apps come packed with Facebook crap because of Facebook's SDK (for the "log in with Facebook" button). There was that one incident where many/most iOS apps didn't open anymore because Meta fucked something up on their servers that crashed every app with the Facebook SDK inside of it (https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-sdk-ios-apps-spotify-ti...).

microtonal06/06/2025

Even the flagship Galaxy S25 (OEM, unlocked) has Facebook services preinstalled.