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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Disabling "Google" app seems to break A LOT of data mining. So make sure you disable that crap. Also disable Chrome and uninstall/disable Gemini. Also use DNS level filtering like NextDNS or AdguardDNS. The amount of crap these filter while not affecting my usage of smartphone is wild. And I'm using Hagezi Ultimate which is the most aggressive block list.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    "Google" - Disabled

    Chrome - Disabled

    Gemini - Never installed that parasite in the first place

    Thanks bro

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    There's about a dozen more you can safely disable with ADB.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Could I get a list? And what's ADB?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Android Debug Bridge. You plug your phone into your computer and get deeper than the android UI lets you. What you would want to disable various by manufacturer and model.

    ADB is a command line thing. I would have Claude or ChatGPT walk you through it and give you a proposed list based on installed apps. It's not especially hard to do, but you need to understand that is you disable something that breaks functionality, you just re-enable things to see what it was. So take your time.

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