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Comment by recursive

13 hours 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.

Shizuku not shuzuka

https://github.com/RikkaApps/Shizuku

And canto not canta (search the play store).

My apologies, I got both last letters wrong!

  • 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.