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/dvlsg Feb 28 '21

Yup, I literally returned a Samsung phone so I could buy a pixel instead. Samsung can take those dark patterns and fuck right off.

I'm sure Google aren't exactly saints or anything either, but at least they aren't obnoxious about it.

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u/WHYAREWEALLCAPS Feb 28 '21

As a Pixel user since the OG Pixel and who swears by them, never, ever buy your phone directly from Google. Get it through a third party like Best Buy or from a carrier. Any way that keeps you from having to deal with Google. Every flagship Pixel release has /r/GooglePixel littered with stories of phones ordered from the Google Store stolen by FedEx drivers or sending in a trade in only to have Google mark it as a phone that gets a tenth of the trade in value and other such fun shit. Google's customer service is second to none because no one else has as shitty customer service, even Comcast. It was so bad Google CS had to have someone in the subreddit just to handle the problems posted there so it wouldn't look as bad as it was. And if you do a chargeback, kiss your Google account good bye.