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Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA

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845 points the-anarchist | 1 comments | 21 Jun 25 03:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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OutOfHere ◴[21 Jun 25 04:44 UTC] No.44334583[source]▶
Samsung currently has an unremovable spyware app on North American phones that pastes (records) everything copied to the clipboard by any app. It is the Samsung Keyboard app. It cannot be removed. It doesn't matter if you're using any other keyboard app. Samsung Keyboard pastes (records) everything that gets copied to the clipboard by any app. The Samsung Keyboard app cannot even be disabled from Android.

As an aside, I recall getting a lot more ads when I used Samsung Keyboard.

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1. noisy_boy ◴[21 Jun 25 04:59 UTC] No.44334649[source]▶
Sometimes I will see a small random "copied" floating notification (not in the notification tray) and I always wondered where it came from. Maybe they have put in some code to suppress it but due to some bug, it leaks out. No proof but I can only hypothize.