These accounts are not required! I use my Samsungs without a Google account. And I only use a Samsung account on some of them.
It's harder to install apps but I use aurora store. Push messaging still works without a Google account.
It's harder to install apps but I use aurora store. Push messaging still works without a Google account.
First, it essentially forces you to create both a Samsung account and a Google account, with numerous shady prompts for "improving services" and "allowing targeted ads."
Then it required nine system updates (apparently, it can only update incrementally), and worst of all, after a while, it automatically started downloading bloatware like "Kawai" and other questionable apps, and you cannot cancel the downloads.
I wonder how much Samsung gets paid to preinstall all that crap. The phone wasn't cheap, either. The company seems penny wise and pound foolish.