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This morning a customer told me that the new Samsung Galaxy S25 (and probably also the previous ones – but I hadn't noticed this on my S24) run, by default, a background service called "Meta Services," which belongs to Meta. And it runs even if you don't have any Meta apps, as it's the result of an agreement between the two companies. I don't have any information about this – does anyone know more?

#Samsung #Android #Privacy

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Samsung partnered with Oculus sometime back and released the Gear VR. It was actually pretty cool for the time. By strapping your phone to your face, you could watch some VR content and play some basic games. Between the low resolution and limited field of view, it was pretty easy for it to induce nausea. The biggest downside was it was Samsung. So everything about the device was locked down, and proprietary. Once you weren't on a supported phone, it was just a hunk of e-waste collecting dust. As for the service, Samsung is no doubt receiving a good amount of money to pre-install Meta's spyware on your phone.