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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by gpmcadam on Sunday March 25, 2018 @12:36PM (#16672953)
Do handset manufacturers ship Facebook pre-installed? And if so, do they choose the permissions for pre-installed apps, or does the user do this on setup?
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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by the_trapper on Sunday March 25, 2018 @12:50PM (#16673034)
I know that Samsung at least ships with Facebook pre-installed, and I think HTC does as well.

By pre-installed I mean impossible to uninstall without rooting and flashing a different ROM.

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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by on_and_off on Friday March 30, 2018 @03:02AM (#16714279)
you can disable, it is pretty much the same.

The only difference is the you don't get your space back since preinstalled apps occupy a different partition, but the app itself cannot run in any way.

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