OnePlus has seemingly made an arrangement with Facebook to pre-install its key apps and services on new handsets like the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus Nord.

The handsets all rock the back-end Facebook App Installer, Facebook App Manager, and Facebook Services as system apps, as well as the consumer-facing Facebook, Messenger and Instagram apps.

While the apps themselves can be removed from the phone, the back-end Facebook services cannot. That amounts to bloatware. Many users have drawn attention to the issues, including XDA Developers’ Max Weintrack, who was particularly annoyed.
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