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More than 50 organizations demand the removal of bloatware applications from Android

Privacy International asks Google to remove pre-installed apps from Android

We all know that when buying an Android smartphone, it comes with a set of pre-installed applications, which we do not have access to uninstall from the operating system Android. Many of these applications consume from hardware resources of the device (CPU, memory, storage space), without the simple user being able to prevent this.

In an open letter signed by more than 50 organizations, "Privacy InternationalGoogle is asking for these to be dropped bloatware applications on the operating system Android or allow users to uninstall them when the smartphone is initialized.
Pre-installed applications come, many of them are not present in either Google Playand their privileges and access to the information in the system are far beyond those of ordinary applications. It shows in the letter that 91% of the bloatware applications are not present in Google Play and users do not have access to information about their activity on the system. At the same time, the high level of access to the operating system, can make security breaches, and the personal data of the users can reach third persons or companies.
This cannot happen when installing a regular Google Play app. Before installation, the user must accept a series of permissions of the application on the mobile phone system, and the reasons for these requests are informed.

In the letter, Google is asked that these pre-installed applications also respect the restrictions in Google Play, and that their update system be the same as that of standard applications, without the need for a separate account for this process.

Currently, if we buy, say, a Samsung smartphone from a mobile phone operator, on Android we will find applications preinstalled both by Samsung and by the operator from which we purchased the device. Many of these applications no longer receive updates or if they were withdrawn after a while, the user will be left with a totally useless and unsafe application on the smartphone. I have personally seen dozens of such applications on Android, which, although withdrawn, could not be uninstalled.

It remains to be seen whether Google has made a positive decision in this regard or will continue with this practice in the future.
It is certain that most of these applications bring profit directly or indirectly, and giving them up would be a small hole in income, both for device manufacturers and for the operators through which they are seen.

iPhone and iPad users have a huge advantage in terms of pre-installed applications. First of all, because Apple does not allow intermediate operators to come with their own applications pre-installed on iOS, and since 2 years ago, Apple also gave free rein to the uninstallation of traditional applications from the iOS system. So that users can uninstall Apple applications such as: Mail, Reminders, Notes, Calendar, Music, iTunes Store, Home and many others.

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