PSA: Starting today, you'll need a Samsung account to use the Galaxy Store
PSA: Starting today, you'll need a Samsung account to use the Galaxy Store
Starting September 25, users must create a Samsung account to access the Galaxy Store, which was previously available without one.
But why would I want to use the Galaxy store?
I think the Galaxy Store occasionally has some offers, like 50% discount on purchases and stuff. If you play gacha games, you can "save" a lot of money.
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
I'm sorry, the fucking wha-- oh right, the first app that I disabled and hid on my last Smasnug.
How can you disable it without affecting your system apps installed from there
Oh no! Anyway...
Came here for this :) Now, if Samsung could punish my unregistered ass by uninstalling the samsung store from my phone too...
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.
and nothing of value was lost
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.
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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.
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
TIL Samsung has a Galaxy Store.
To use the what now?
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 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
This is the way to update the Samsung apps
Wait, that was already the case, can't even view update without one.
Yeah, now idea how news sites and people claim this is somehow news.
I didn't even know you could use it without one.
Remind me... Are Samsung's stock apps only updateable via the Galaxy Store? Also, is the Good Lock module limited to the Galaxy Store?
I wish they offered it everywhere tbh...
Some apps can be updated through the Play Store, others only through the Galaxy Store. Last I heard Good Lock had been introduced to the Play Store but had limited functionality.