how much do these places pay to make their apps into terminal cancer that cant be excised.
Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled
Submitted 1 day 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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A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
sonofearth@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Privacy, user control and consent means nothing to these companies.
Sunny@slrpnk.net 23 hours ago
Surely this can still removed with ADB?
Jhex@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
ah too bad… I got one for me and one for my wife earlier this year, we liked them… but these would be our last based on this crap
tengkuizdihar@programming.dev 1 day ago
> nothing
look inside > thing
scammed
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
With ongoing enshittification in the quest for the lowest common denominator, why it might as well be mandatory to keep a 3310.
sidebro@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Gotta be possible to remove with root permissions, no chance I’d let that spyware sit on my phone
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 day ago
No chance I’d buy a phone that had this in the first place.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
especially one by META, whos all in datamining.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
root permissions, which will disqualify it from being able to run the banking app, the mandatory age verification app, and others.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
Depends on the bank, mine doesn’t have a problem with root.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 12 hours ago
Is there atleast roms?
Mattr@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
More new ways to spy on us. Nothing is a good brand, but this is wrong. ( •_•)
quokka1@mastodon.au 18 hours ago
@Mattr @Toasted_Breakfast They're trying some things like lock-screen ads on some models too. Turned "off" by default (for now). But their Phone (3) isn't getting that, if i understand correctly. Just the (a) models.
pir8t0x@ani.social 1 day ago
Sad…
meejle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Can it be uninstalled, or just “uninstalled”? I’m concerned it’s going to be like andoid, where it gives you the option to “uninstall” chrome, but it just reverts it to the factory image and leaves a gaping hole in your security.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 23 hours ago
I only ever get a “disable” option. 🤨
FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Besides the point but man, that phone looks hideous
Semester3383@lemmy.world 20 hours 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.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 14 hours 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.
Semester3383@lemmy.world 11 hours 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.