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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.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago by ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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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!

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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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

you can start there and than you know how to uninstall the rest of the bloat

adb shell pm list packages

will 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

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

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.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

indeed, if you update, they will all be back on

[–] Stomata@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Never seen them come back after update