1 star for all the spam on my phone

Tom Dauria

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Do you appreciate all the spam samsung and the carriers install on your phone? Would you find it acceptable if microsoft installed bloatware in your windows installation on every update? I just got 4.4.4 update for my AT&T S4 and there are 5 or 6 new programs that I don't recognize from before like keeper and uber. I am going to each of those apps and giving them a 1 star spam rating.

It's so ridiculous that these apps show up in my apps in google play even though I didn't install them. One of them is lookout anti virus. How does a virus work? At is't most basic level a virus installs itself on your computer without you agreeing to it. Isn't that exactly what is happening here? I don't know what these apps are doing. I can't remove them.

If you agree please give them 1 star. Only me doing it isn't going matter, but if a lot of people do it then the app creators will take notice. I know when I am considering a new app I will pick the one with a 4.2 over one with a 3.9. So it matters and if enough people do that maybe they will stop spamming us and wasting our limited space with these useless unwanted apps.
 

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Welcome to Android Central! Yes, this is an age-old issue. Bloatware helps subsidize devices, so that's the tradeoff--if there's no bloatware, then you probably end up paying more for the device. This is one of the reasons why I like Nexus devices.