Facebook prevents users from deleting their app. They can only disable it.

Facebook has signed a number of agreements with South Korean Samsung and other Android-based smartphone manufacturers, which prevent users from deleting their app.

According to the British newspaper "Independent", these agreements mean that the most famous social networking application is preinstalled on Android phones, and that the user can turn it off for a period only without the possibility of permanently removing it .

According to the newspaper, it is unclear how many transactions have been made by Facebook with particular phone companies, but one of the most affected phones is changing Samsung Galaxy S8. Facebook declined to disclose details of the agreements or their physical nature.

Permanent applications preinstalled on smartphones are often described as software that can lead to the depletion of phones, as most of them consume uncompressed space compared to storage capacity. The integration of applications in this way in the operating systems does not make the phones competitive. Antitrust against technology companies.

A Facebook spokesman said that "these deals are aimed at providing the best phone experience to the user," adding that disabling Facebook's application on Android phones looked like a deletion, which means that she would not send any data to Facebook if it was turned off.

But this is unlikely to rebadure Android phone users, especially after the recent Facebook personal data collection scandals for users, most recently a survey conducted by Privacy International last week.

The company found that of the 34 popular apps on Android phones, 23 apps send data to Facebook once the user has opened it. Facebook commented that data sharing was "a common practice among many companies" and was based on transparency.