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Are you sure it's not some carrier install? (Which are apparently a thing in the US.)

I have never seen anything like that on a flagship Samsung, nor our daughter's A series.

At work we bought a used tablet off eBay to replace a customer device where they really wanted an identical (obsolete) model. OMG the amount of extra crap that Verizon branded tablet had pre-installed was agonizing. All system apps so you couldn't get rid of it.

It's worth mentioning that on most Android phones and tablets, you can uninstall apps from the user partition even when they are system apps with adb or a UI for it like UAD-ng.

i take the position that it's all dog shit and i dont care whos fault it is, all of these people need to be put in front of a tribunal and justice done

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