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!

  • StomataEnglish
    2•4 days ago

    I do own a Samsung devices and I removed them. By removing play services only thing you will find not working is push notification. But now unified push works on some apps.

    The other thing is you will find some apps won’t work(I say just don’t use those spywares apps). Some apps will show notification that “enable play services or I won’t work blah blah” But still working fine