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microtonaltoday at 8:53 AM0 repliesview on HN

Definitely. But at least on Samsung phones, you can uninstall the packages from the user partition and in that way rip most of that stuff out (like the McAfee scanner in security, Bixby, Gemini, OneDrive, etc.).

So, yeah, they are copying, but by virtue of the ecosystem being less open, you are mostly stuck with it.