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Just got a new unlocked Samsung 25 Ultra and it's filled with bloatware you're not allowed to uninstall. I need a hack to uninstall it. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@discuss.tchncs.de

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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!

OQB @ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

Currently the buck stops at android 15 with that path. It's unclear if this will change.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.