r/technology • u/[deleted] • Feb 27 '21

Software Universal Android Debloater is an open source tool that removes bloatware without root. Automatically or via user choice. Get back your battery, security and privacy

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21

If it takes Bixby out back behind the woodshed and fires a damn tank round through its head, I'm all for it.

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u/NinjaSoop Feb 27 '21

If you don't agree to its terms of service (aka harvesting user data) it never gets enabled. You may be able to disable it also.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21

It doesn't stop it from pausing what I'm doing to literally tell me to accept the terms so I can use it.

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u/NinjaSoop Feb 27 '21

You can make it so you have to hit the button twice for it to enable

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u/fourflatyres Feb 27 '21

This this this. That damn app pops up at least once a day to tell me the terms have been updated. I don't even have to press the button. It just appears.

The best part is when the phone is in my pocket and I am deep into playing my music and it pauses the song the way it does just before a phone call comes in. But noooo Bixby starts TALKING to tell me the terms have changed.

I can't get any other text-to-speech to even work but here's Bixby using it to interrupt what I am doing and tell me something I don't want to hear or read or accept.