Patch it with Revanced and create a free personal API key. Boom.

That’s like saying Samsung shouldn’t allow you to install any apps. If Verizon bought the phone they can put whatever they want on it before they sell it to you. And then when you buy it, you delete or put whatever you want on it.

It’s the provider. These people don’t know what they are talking about.

This isn’t from Samsung. There phones don’t come with this. It’s preloaded from the carrier OP has phone service from. Quit spreading FUD and get your facts straight.

This isn’t from Samsung. They don’t install this junk. It’s from the phone carrier (ie: AT&T or Verizon). Quit spreading FUD.