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PSA: Starting today, you'll need a Samsung account to use the Galaxy Store
(www.androidauthority.com)
But why would I want to use the Galaxy store?
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
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If you use a samsung phone that's where goodlock is
And what's that?
A really cool app that brings new functionality and customization options for a Samsung phone.
I sense lots of people creating accounts with gibberish@gibberish emails just to download GoodLock lol
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Yeah but what does it do?
Ok, good point. Here's some screenshots with descriptions of what it can do. Sorry, I'm too lazy to type all of this on my phone.
Ah, so it is PowerToys, but for Samsung phones.
EDIT: nvm. I thought this was a Samsung app, but turns out it is third party.
It's first-party, but somehow not installed by default on Samsung devices.
Honestly, one of these look enticing enough to deal with the galaxy app store to me.
Especially since most of those features should just be part of the phone, and not walled behind a 3rd party app store.
Nova does a lot of this doesn't it
Probably, but I haven't used nova launcher since it was purchased by an ad company.
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A really cool app that brings new functionality and customization options for a Samsung phone.
It brings new functionality and customization options for a Samsung phone. It's a really cool app.
Made by samsung
I mean you can get it other places as well, finelock, nicelock, and goodlock region-free are all available online and will do the same things.
Im aware, but most people think its only on the galaxy store
For the 'edge touch' app that lets you fix that curved screen bullshit that fucks you up every time you're typing.
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It goes to my pile of reasons for not using it, currently, I have:
- Blocks VPNs
- Popup ad at startup
- There's nothing interesting on it
- Now it requires an account
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I didn't even know you could use it without one.
Who uses that anyway? Back when I was using a Samsung phone, I was always annoyed because I couldn't uninstall this bullshit
The Pixel with GrapheneOS is simply superior. No ads, no tracking, no bloatware, no bullshit, just 100% FOSS software with privacy and security in mind.
Unfortunate. The Samsung store is probably the biggest non-Chinese competitor to Google Play, and now it's picking up Google's annoying practices.
I know people like to be dismissive about every app they don't personally use, but the Samsung Store really isn't all that bad. A whole bunch of paid apps can be bought there for cheap or even gotten for free sometimes. I wish more people used it so Google would actually feel pressure to make the Play Store better.
Its not an actual competitor considering you need both a samsung smartphone and the galaxy store app to actually download apps. The discounted apps are limited to samsung smartphones. Meanwhile, those brought on Playstore can be installed on any google play services compatible smartphone.
Its a total ghost town in the Samsung Store though its pretty much useless anyways.
I dont have a smasnug(not a typo, inside joke) but do people actually use OEM stores?
I have one.
I have only ever used the Samsung store to install a single official customisation app that I used once and never again.
As far as I'm concerned it only exists to occasionally annoy me with notifications about apps with updates that I installed from other stores.
Oh SMASNUG!
oh no, my pkcell
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Updates uninstalled, all available permissions turned off, auto-update turned off for Galaxy Store. That app has done nothing but get in my way. Thanks for the reminder, Samsung.
I'm sorry, the fucking wha-- oh right, the first app that I disabled and hid on my last Smasnug.
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Oh no! Anyway...
Hahaha.
Who the fuck uses Samsung store anyway?
I never owned a Sammy phone in my life! The sheer double app bloatware is enough to scare me away.
Plain vanilla for me.
Came here for this :) Now, if Samsung could punish my unregistered ass by uninstalling the samsung store from my phone too...
and nothing of value was lost
For anyone who doesn't know, you can remove the Galaxy Store and any other Samsung bloatware you don't want using ADB. Root isn't required, but be careful when removing apps, you could accidentally remove something that's a dependency on something else you actually use. For me I desperately needed to stop the constant notification from the Samsung Account app telling me to sign in to continue.
There's a simple and intuitive application called Universal Android Debloater which does everything for you
It's free and open source on GitHub: https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation
this will affect 300 people heavily, and the other 99 % will just create an account then lol
I have no idea how Samsung phones are so popular. They are aesthetically pleasing I guess, but their insistence on bloat ware has driven me away since day 1. I almost got the 1 bloat free phone they ever made which was the S4 Google Play edition, but opted for the HTC One Google Play edition instead. Since then, every phone has been loaded with unremovable garbage apps that you can't get rid of without rooting. I refuse to buy a phone with garbage apps that no one uses with the sole purpose of data collection. Say what you will about Google (I know) but at least their apps are helpful.
My mom has a Samsung Smart TV that recently kept turning on by itself to play their shitty TV+app which was pre installed on the TV, and never once opened (not on purpose at least) by anyone in the household. Apparently this is a common issue. I had to disconnect it completely from the internet, perform a factory reset, sign her Samsung account out, and plug in a Chromecast to replace the UI of the TV just to get everything working for her, and not waste electricity by having the TV randomly turn on every 30 minutes. It's one thing if they were bloating their UI with good apps, but forcing a bunch of absolutely useless apps onto us is ridiculous.
I don't have a particular liking for Samsung, but I've been using their devices for many years since their features best match my needs.
I never got any bloat, quite the contrary, I go out of my way to install some of their apps because they provide android functionality that is rare to find otherwise (e.g. audio multi-app sound, sound output to different devices, individual app volume control, etc.).
There are no preinstalled games, 3rd party apps or anything really other than the basic Google & default apps like a browser.
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TIL Samsung has a Galaxy Store.
To use the what now?
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