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You keep ignoring everyone who says that but I will still repeat it: it’s not Google that installs third-party (!) apps on your phone.

It is really common in the other hand for OEMs (Samsung, Sony, Xiaomi, …) to install additional apps to earn money through “partnerships”.

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When I contracted in the USA, they provided a Verizon phone. There was a system app called something like App Manager, which was a Verizon app, installed as a system app, that bloated your phone with crap like Peel Remote, NFL, Amazon, and other nonsense, all mostly also installed as system apps. Once I disabled this App Manager, this bloat shite stopped. Try looking for something installed as a system app that didn’t come directly from Google.

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I sincerely doubt this is accurate. It’s significantly more likely that someone logged in under your Google account was browsing the Play store and accidentally remotely installed Deezer on your device.

Google doesn’t randomly install random applications to your phone.

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It is possible for the carrier to do it, though. Probably the OEM too, though I’ve been using Pixels for so long I don’t remember seeing it.

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This is because you’re running a version of AOSP that’s been purposefully changed by the carrier to allow them to do that. Stock android does not give your wireless carrier the unfettered ability to remotely install applications on your phone without your permission…

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no one has access to my account

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also that is the third time google installed stuff on phones in the last weeks.

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So then either your account is compromise, or your phone has a virus and is downloading random shit from the play store. Either of these situations are astonishingly more likely than “google is downloading random shit on my phone!”

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This is not some random application. It’s apart of Android and is included in software updates to the Android operating system.

You’re talking about fuckin’ Deezer. Some literal random application. You couldn’t have chosen a worse example if you were trying to.

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Google is not affiliated with Deezer in any way, so I don’t think they would give Deezer free publicity especially when they have YouTube Music as a competing product.

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