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Comment by recursive

1 day ago

> You can remove 3rd party spyware/bloat in 15 minutes with Shizuka/canto

These techniques seem not to be widely known. A kagi search turned up only information about some singer.

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esperent  1 day ago

Shizuku not shuzuka

https://github.com/RikkaApps/Shizuku

And canto not canta (search the play store).

My apologies, I got both last letters wrong!

  • b112  20 hours ago

    Not sure what the point of this all is.

    Seems far easier to just use ADB. Especially rather than trusting a codebase you don't know, and an app you don't know.

    I also find it better to use ADB, list all apps installed, remove what I personally choose, instead of a list by others.

    It's fairly easy:

      adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.youtube    # Youtube

  adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.partnersetup    # Google Partner Setup (Some kind of inter-app sync service)

    (I have a list of about 100 apps I do this with, on mainline android phones)

    It's the best you'll typically get. It's deactivated, but still in the ROM of course.

    • esperent  4 hours ago

      It can block things that adb can't.

      And you can set it up without a laptop (although it's easier to so the initial setup with a laptop) and once setup, you have an app that can enable/disable things.