Just bought myself a new phone with Android 6, on my first day I went through all the preinstalled software and tried to delete the stuff that I will never use. Finding that I was not PERMITTED to uninstall any of the bloatware, just disable it. So I disabled a number of apps including Evernote.
A couple of days days latter I get a notification that I have a message from Evernote, I open the message and it is Evernote prompting me to create an account, that is when I discovered that the software had reactivated itself – WTF. Once again I disabled the piece of crap that I WILL NEVER USE because I do not want EVERY FUCKING EVERNOTE EMPLOYEE reading my notes. A couple of days later I get another notification and guess what – THE PIECE OF SHIT SOFTWARE HAS REACTIVATED ITSELF AGAIN. Did Ever(fucking)note buy my phone? – NO. Do Ever(fucking)note pay my phone bills? – NO. So why the fuck should they have the right to install their fucking software on my phone and then keep bugging me to create an account and use their fucking product?
I have done some research and it appears that this is a common problem with a lot of Android phones over a number of manufacturers so this seems to be an issue with Android not the phone manufacturer. So Google, yet another reason to get pissed with you. I do not like Apple nor the iPhone but I am VERY tempted to dump Android and go iPhone. I have already gotten rid of my Android tablet for similar reasons (I now use a product with Windows, up side is I also get better integration with my PC’s), if I knew this was going to happen I would never have thrown my money away on your shitty product.
As the title asks: Evernote – Bloatware, PUP or Virus? In my opinion it is all three.The software is NOT required for the normal operation of the phone so WHY is it treated as system software? Why can’t I at least deactivate it? Why can’t I UNINSTALL THE USELESS CRAP?
The Douche of the Week award goes to Google and Evernote.
UPDATE: Just went onto the Evernote web site and guess what? Not one word about this issue, wonder why? They change their product so you cannot uninstall it and then change their privacy policy to allow every single one of their employees to have the right to access EVERYONES notes. Wonder if their actions are totally altruistic? Wonder if they have their clients best interest at heart? The answer to these questions are NO & YES. No – they want access to your ideas so they can use them and make money. Yes – they have got the best interests of their clients at heart — their INVESTORS, the users rights mean absolutely nothing to them after all they are giving their software away for free, so the users will have to pay for it some how. Bet there is a clause in one of the documents you have to agree to to use Evernote that grants then the right to use the users notes in any way they please for free. So the user gets an idea, Evernote steal it and make megabucks and the innovator gets squat, shafted, used. Nothing so great as Corporate Greed.