I’m not buying a Pixel because I’m not giving Google any money. I’m in the US so the other OSs will not work for me. I just need this crap off my phone. I can’t uninstall Youtube, and it came with Facebook. It’s just infuriating. Can I just root it and connect it to my Linux laptop and just force uninstalls or something without bricking the device?
Any help appreciated!
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I don’t know man, to me it seems a path of least resistance to give Google the money for the phone, and then immediately turn off the fauct by installing Graphene.
I do not miss the days of having to root phones just to try to make them less anti-user.
Currently the buck stops at android 15 with that path. It’s unclear if this will change.
Totally. God how I hate to be forced to jump through thousands of hoops, and potentially brick your phone every time, just to actually own the shit you paid 1500 moneyz for.
If they’d dare this with PCs…pre-installed windows that tells you “you mustn’t remove fuckbook from the startmenu!”. I would ragequit that device outta the literal window.
@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com unfortunately, Samshits are incredibly locked down, don’t expect root on it anytime soon and to be stuck with most bloatware. Even if root on your model is achieved, it’ll come at the cost of 20% of your battery life. Samshit is so petty, they will lock out 20% of your battery if root is achieved.
It’s Pixel + GrapheneOS, OnePlus or live with the bloat for us in the US
because I’m not giving Google any money.
Just buy a used or refurbished one from a third party
ADB is what you are looking for you can disable or remove practically everything. App inspector will help you find the name of the packages you want to remove.
I have not specifically followed this website, but the procedure that they describe to uninstall seemingly locked down bloatware using adb from my older Galaxy A series worked well: https://technastic.com/remove-samsung-bloatware-safe-to-remove-apps/
