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!
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.youtubeyou can start there and than you know how to uninstall the rest of the bloat
adb shell pm list packageswill give you a list of all the installed packages
you don’t even need to root to uninstall through adb
but, with an unlocked phone it should be better to just install a degoogled android
https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater already has a list for samsung debloating
Bear in mind, this isn’t actually uninstalling the binaries, it is just masking them for that user account. Samsung/Google can turn them back on whenever they choose.
indeed, if you update, they will all be back on
Never seen them come back after update
This user known whats up. Everybody do this. It works, but be careful with stuff you don’t know about or you’ll risk getting stuck in boot loop and having a trip to recovery mode.