This morning a customer told me that the new Samsung Galaxy S25 (and probably also the previous ones – but I hadn't noticed this on my S24) run, by default, a background service called "Meta Services," which belongs to Meta. And it runs even if you don't have any Meta apps, as it's the result of an agreement between the two companies. I don't have any information about this – does anyone know more?

#Samsung #Android #Privacy

@stefano originally it was there to support Gear VR, for which Oculus (Meta) provided the runtime. Once they sunset Gear VR, it just stuck around for reasons…