Google today remotely installed deezer on my phone. Anyone else here that had that happen?

  • weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de
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    27 days ago

    You keep ignoring everyone who says that but I will still repeat it: it’s not Google that installs third-party (!) apps on your phone.

    It is really common in the other hand for OEMs (Samsung, Sony, Xiaomi, …) to install additional apps to earn money through “partnerships”.

  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today
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    27 days ago

    Google is not affiliated with Deezer in any way, so I don’t think they would give Deezer free publicity especially when they have YouTube Music as a competing product.

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    27 days ago

    I sincerely doubt this is accurate. It’s significantly more likely that someone logged in under your Google account was browsing the Play store and accidentally remotely installed Deezer on your device.

    Google doesn’t randomly install random applications to your phone.