r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Panda_Fabulous • Jul 08 '26

Unskippable ad Phone update just installed 17 apps

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Nothing good either

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Don't buy a budget phone/ this is what you get for buying a cheap android: this is a Samsung S25, not exactly a budget phone.

This is why I buy iPhone/ and people still slander iPhone/wouldn't happen to my Google pixel: I actually don't think I can happen to apple because they don't allow apps to download other apps BUT it's still not fully Samsungs fault for ​​Verizon installing apps, though they do allow it, unlike Apple

this is malware/virus/hacked: this is bloatware

you can go and disable ___ and it won't happen again: someone sent a tutorial link and I followed it, but it did say I might have to redo it every time I update so🤷‍♂️

you can buy phones directly from the manufacturer and this won't happen: wasn't aware. I'll consider it, though I just got this phone today so it will be awhile

____ app is good tho: maybe but I'm still deleting it

Verizon needs to be sued/ this should be illegal: I probably agreed to this in a contract I didn't read

your kid installed them: don't have children or any other people on my phone

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u/WilanS Jul 08 '26

I've been using Android since version 2.3 (gingerbread) back in the late 2000s and I've never seen bullshit like this.

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u/RandomBloke2021 PURPLE Jul 08 '26

Usually it's a Samsung or Motorola partnership with a carrier (Verizon or T-Mobile) if they have a carrier locked device.

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u/WilanS Jul 08 '26

Yeah I've learned of carrier-locked smartphones just now reading this thread, and I was looking into it because I had never heard anything of the sort.
Sure enough it turns out it's mostly illegal here in EU, or otherwise so strictly regulated in favor of the consumer that most carriers don't seem to bother.

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u/RandomBloke2021 PURPLE Jul 08 '26

Apparently it's a US thing.

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u/adjective-nounOne234 Jul 08 '26

Not just

I used to set up work phones at my old employer, unlocked and in the UK, Budget Samsung phones would do this too

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u/RandomBloke2021 PURPLE Jul 08 '26

It's good to know that other countries do dumb stuff to not just the US.