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Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Toasted_Breakfast@lemmy.today⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

https://9to5google.com/2025/10/29/nothing-phone-3a-lite-facebook-instagram-apps/

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  • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow, nothing is a shit name, for one. On the other hand, this being reported on a website that requires tracking consent to view. I want a new Timeline.

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    • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nothing would be a great brand name if they were dedicated to making good phones without any bloatware.

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      • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The misinterpretation with the name nothing to the regular word nothing in headlines and everything is really bad, especially since the internet is global and for countries who never heard the name.

        Some people think they’re really clever with their company name and cause lots of confusion with it for their narrow mindedness.

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    • nieceandtows@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What do you mean? There are tons of shit names.

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      • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Of course there are. But in this case the headline could be read:

        No thing’s new:…

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You were supposed to be the fucking CHOSEN ONE

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    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t stake your hopes on anyone or any entity and you will never be disappointed

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      • theparadox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There are only those companies for whom the incentives to betray you aren’t yet high enough. Either the incentives become high enough for the chosen company to betray you, or the incentives become enough for another company with enough money to buy the chosen company and betray you…or bury the chosen company in the hopes that you’ll open yourself to being betrayed or exploited by the other company.

        Welcome to unfettered/unregulated capitalism aka the natural end result that capitalism pushes society towards.

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    • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nothing already lost me when they put a tiny, useless OLED screen on the back of their flagship and called it innovation. They had something great with the Glyph lights on the whole back, so of course they ditched it.

      Not even Unihertz put Facebook garbage on their new Titan 2phone. And they also have an OLED on the back. A much bigger one. For a fraction of the price.

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  • ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Welp, and some people hypothesized Nothing would be the secret manufacturer that GrapheneOS works with. Hope not, I’m not sure what Nothing would get out of it with these kinds od actions.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I still think it’s Motorola.

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      • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’d like that. I’ve enjoyed being on Motorola for the last few phones. Good, serviceable, middle-of-the-road priced phones and a company that doesn’t think so highly of themselves that the majority of the price amounts to a prestige tax. (ahem…Apple and Samsung)

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      • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Isn’t Motorola’s mobile division (with the exception of the PDA hardware acquired by Zebra Technologies) owned by Lenovo full stop?

        I would imagine that might lead to issues later down the line for the Graphene team (although I’d love to be proven wrong).

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ratchet mechanism of enshittification clicks

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  • ultranaut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I once had a phone with uninstallable Facebook bullshit and it is more than mildly infuriating. Fuck Nothing, they are dead to me now. This is unforgivable.

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  • sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just what the world needed

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh good, one less phone to consider.

    I would literally sooner intentionally install malware in my phone than anything from Meta.

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  • _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Looks like nothing I want to waste money on.

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  • sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How much does a phone manufacturer get when they do these pre-inatalled app deals?

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    • Toasted_Breakfast@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Apparently enough to destroy the reputation over it.

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      • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        To me I’m most supprised on this one, I mean, wasn’t the whole point of the nothing to be a phone that doesn’t distract you as much, lets you stay in the moment.

        what the hell kind of partnership is this. This is as dumb as say an electric vehicle company partnering up with climate change deniers

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      • mrfriki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not that reputation seems to matter a lot nowadays…

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    • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Probably more than what they get from selling it. That’s why sports are all hands on deck with gambling now and they don’t give a shit about the fans at all

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  • skeezix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    FUCK THAT

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  • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bruh. This is truly surprising. I feel like for a phone like this, it must be like 90% of the target market that would hate this? Seems like an unimaginably bad business decision. Of course, if FB gave them enough money, then this is kinda like taking a bribe to stop competing.

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are pivoting to a new customer base, people who are vaguely aware privacy is a concern but aren’t capable of figuring out nothing phones are a scam.

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  • sommerset@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait they are monetizing this hard so soon? They barely launched the brand

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    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Shareholder pressure? Asshole CEO that masked who he was so far? Who can say. Seems to be the general trend now though.

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  • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So I’ve been holding onto my OnePlus 6T because it was the closest thing to a Nexus after they destroyed it and migrated it into the Pixel program.

    I’ve been eyeballing Nothing for a while now, but it looks like before I could even get one, they’re already off the market for me.

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  • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So, the Nothing 3a, AKA The Something.

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  • localhorst@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nothing’s new.

    FTFY

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  • tyrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bummer, I thought nothing was a good brand.

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    • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, nothing is a good a brand, including Nothing

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      • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Fairphone?

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  • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The problem with Meta (also russian Yandex) is that it was caught having web-side trackers that send stuff to localhost, where it gets caught by Meta apps and then sent to Zucker servers. This two-bit scheme was noticed by researchers and isn’t there anymore, but it is a clear display why having these apps preinstalled is a problem. Regular ads are better than Mark looking over your shoulder whenever his meta pixel triggers.

    theregister.com/…/meta_pauses_android_tracking_te…

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  • clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nothing says ‘I’m shitty’ more than naming yourself ‘Nothing’. Oh, wait, using meta/facebook makes you even shittier.

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    • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nothing says ‘I’m shitty’ more than naming yourself ‘Nothing’.

      I mean…that’s an odd take. Don’t know how someone could be so upset over the name of a company, but hey let that anger out.

      Oh, wait, using meta/facebook makes you even shittier.

      I mean, no arguments there though.

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    • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean I am pretty happy with my nothing phone. It came with a pretty minimal stock android that runs on hardware that’s quite good for what I paid. Despite the shitty name that people have indeed made fun of, the phone’s been pretty good so far.

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    • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That does sound edgy and pointless, like x dot com, but it fits their focus on visual style and branding over everything else.

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  • obsolete@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nothing could have been Something.

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  • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for reporting it. I was eyeing a 3a phone, but no more.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So it is oficially a shitphone.

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  • root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is a major bummer. I was kinda rooting for them to be the OEM that GOS would be working with.

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    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      LMAO, lol even. Nothing 3 had shit hardware for the price, I was hoping it wouldn’t be them.

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      • root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh? TIL. I guess if they’ve ruled out fairphone and nothing is as bad as you say, maybe it’s a larger player. Can’t think of many other small ones.

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    • DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Before reading this, it would have never occurred to me that anyone even considered this possibility. And thank God it’s not happening. Their phones are abysmal dogshit.

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  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can they even be removed with adb?

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    • MiDaBa@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m sure they can, it’s just sad to see they’re giving such a sleazy company a spot on every phone no matter what. Also, who knows what type of system access Facebook has been given to track us. They track people even if they don’t have a fb acct.

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  • lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow they’ve fallen hard in the last 24 hours

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  • tengkuizdihar@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    > nothing

    look inside > thing

    scammed

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  • mr2meows@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i knew they was fake as shit bro

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  • Semester3383@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Disappointing.

    I bought one of their phones nearly a year ago. The UI was… Not great, IMO, but I was able to re-skin it. The SD card slot was the biggest reason for me. Well, now I know taht my next phone is going to be a Pixel with Graphene installed.

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    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, come over to the dark side. I haven’t had any issues so far, except for the whiplash it is to go from YouTube I scrolled for hours every day to using NewPipe which takes two seconds to load a new video. It has made me very mindful of what I want to watch because from searching to watching I need to wait like 10 seconds.

      Haven’t dipped my toes into banking apps though. Thats a frontier I’ll deal with when I get to it.

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      • Semester3383@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Haven’t tried NewPipe yet. I currently use YouTube for specific videos, and I’m usually operating it from a private tab in my browser through a VPN, rather than the app. (So far I’m not getting served ads that way, although sometimes I have to skip to different countries to get around sign-in nags.)

        Banking apps are the one thing that worries me. My prior bank didn’t allow rooted phones to be used for online banking; I haven’t made an attempt with my current phone. Given that I now live in a… Rather remote part of the country, access to online banking is fairly important.

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  • Sunny@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Surely this can still removed with ADB?

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    how much do these places pay to make their apps into terminal cancer that cant be excised.

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  • sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gotta be possible to remove with root permissions, no chance I’d let that spyware sit on my phone

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    • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No chance I’d buy a phone that had this in the first place.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      root permissions, which will disqualify it from being able to run the banking app, the mandatory age verification app, and others.

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      • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Depends on the bank, mine doesn’t have a problem with root.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      especially one by META, whos all in datamining.

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