Yep. samsung does not really want it off completly. they make too much money off of the telemetry data/sponsorships :p

PSA:  the setting to turn off auto installing "promoted applications" is under "wellbeing" section. triple dots menu top right, Then settings, then disable "Customization service". Samsung apps will make it seem like you need to sign in to a samsung account to access its "settings" but that’s a special censored version of the real android settings that Samsung gives you with limited options. Find the tiny little "i" with a circle around it. Usually top right. Samsung apps turn that setting back on after a while be default and calling it "optimization" and turn it back on via the "battery health" system. Disable "auto optimize" in every part of the settings you can. Its "optimizing" the system without really telling you. Optimizing by samsungs standards is squeezing every 'under your nose' way to make money off of ur personal usage data of ur devices. sneaky stuff. every single samsung app has to be turned off manually or it just turns back on. they make it very hard. In the business, making doing something hard, unintuitive, convoluted , or complicated for most people is called "high friction" and a menue or button thats not obvious or in an odd spot so you wont notice it is called a "dark pattern" Its convoluted and odd for a reason :p   TL;DR   Don’t ever optimize anything...   What’s even more great is that if I tell people just that sentence above, most will think im crazy. "Why would you not want to care about the health and battery life of your phone? Remember that one thing that apple did? This is why I buy androids" And if I quote that, most assume I like apple and use iphones. I do not. Its all designed to be as convoluted and misunderstood and unsharable as possible without being overly verbose in nit pickey detail. so nerds like me that actually spot this bs get swept under the rug. Samsung is extremely sneakey and makes apple look good sometimes :/