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But why would I want to use the Galaxy store?

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If you use a samsung phone that’s where goodlock is

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And what’s that?

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A really cool app that brings new functionality and customization options for a Samsung phone.

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I mean you can get it other places as well, finelock, nicelock, and goodlock region-free are all available online and will do the same things.

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Im aware, but most people think its only on the galaxy store

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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.

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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
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Wait what

The first two are real?

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Yeah everytime I open it for updates it shows me a popup ad. For the VPN my only reference point is Proton VPN premium servers, when using it the downloads don’t move, disable it, and it starts going instantly

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OK i have a stock tab s6 and it doesn’t do either of those thankfully. It sucks in other ways. Have to keep this one stock but with lineage it is so much better

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I’m sorry, the fucking wha– oh right, the first app that I disabled and hid on my last Smasnug.

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How can you disable it without affecting your system apps installed from there

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No idea, I never used it. The day I got that phone, I disabled/uninstalled all Smasnug and most Google apps.

You could try getting the APKs from APKMirror and installing them from a file manager.

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I suppose that’s an option

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Lineage. Certainly made my Tab S6 usable

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Unfortunately not an option for my phone :(

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Oh no! Anyway…

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Came here for this :) Now, if Samsung could punish my unregistered ass by uninstalling the samsung store from my phone too…

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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.

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and nothing of value was lost

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