Another I'm pretty sure there's nothing I can do about this but I'm asking anyway question. [View all]

But hope springs eternal, I guess.

I got a new phone recently, which I'm actually fairly fond of in most respects. It's a Samsung Galaxy A16. My issue probably has nothing directly to do with the particular phone though, but with Samsung in general, I'm guessing.

I've always had no default browser. I do it this way because when I click a link from an email I open it in a different browser depending on if it's a payment I need to make, something political, or just something interesting, etc. My old phone did not make it easy to have no default browser, but I could do it by installing Firefox Focus, making it my default browser, and then uninstalling it and installing it again without making it my default browser.

Well that doesn't work anymore. As soon as I uninstall my default browser the Samsung browser makes itself my default. So far there seems to be nothing I can do about it. It seems to indicate you can disable it, but not really, at least not enough to keep it from continuing to grab default. Of course you can then set another browser to default, but that's not what I want; I want no default.

You cannot uninstall the Samsung browser. I've already done lots of web searches that indicate you can disable it, that indicate you can uninstall it, but on my phone you cannot.

I just tried stopping the Samsung browser as a last ditch effort, but it did not stop it from grabbing back default when I uninstalled the current default browser. There was a setting somewhere buried way deep that I found it said do you or don't you want to let it make system level settings changes, which at the moment I can't find again, but I also tried turning that off, and that didn't help either. The damn thing is determined that you shall have a default, whether you want one or not.

I tried asking the question in the Play Store, and it simply lied to me about how I could fix it. I did post a one star review detailing my complaint as much as I could in 500 characters. I doubt anybody on the development team will reply to it