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Re:Notes on Analytics and Tracking in Onavo Protect for iOS by ravenstine on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:50PM (#16530503)
I remember uninstalling Facebook was pretty difficult. I was only able to truly get rid of it by rooting my phone(I didn't do it for that purpose, but that ended up being one benefit). They must pay Samsung a lot of money because there's no good reason why a non-critical app would be so hard to remove.
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Re:Notes on Analytics and Tracking in Onavo Protect for iOS by Karunamon on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @01:19PM (#16530746)
Wouldn't merely disabling the app (in system -> applications) have accomplished the same except for freeing up a couple hundred megs of storage on the system partition? Disabled apps don't have their services run.
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Re:Notes on Analytics and Tracking in Onavo Protect for iOS by ravenstine on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @05:03PM (#16532494)
Yes, but I also want that space. Nothing changes the fact that it really doesn't have a right to be there. :)

Also, there were other apps that I could only disable. I think YouTube might have been one of them, and I would really prefer to use NewPipe instead. So once I was rooted it was kind of like "Well, might as well delete ALL of that crap."

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Re:Notes on Analytics and Tracking in Onavo Protect for iOS by parthdesai on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:54PM (#16530540)
I can't uninstall whatsapp because my entire family communicates via whatsapp.
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Re:Notes on Analytics and Tracking in Onavo Protect for iOS by niels on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @01:00PM (#16530588)
I convinced my family to move to Signal. Perhaps try that.
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Re:Notes on Analytics and Tracking in Onavo Protect for iOS by parthdesai on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @08:39PM (#16533696)
Sure, i can try to convince my immediate family. But cousins and everyone? It's too much to ask
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Re:Notes on Analytics and Tracking in Onavo Protect for iOS by marak830 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:11PM (#16532138)
Conversely I found Line messenger works well. :-)
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Re:Notes on Analytics and Tracking in Onavo Protect for iOS by cuckcuckspruce on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @01:22PM (#16530765)
I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime and was able to uninstall Facebook the same way that you would uninstall any other Facebook app. It's the first Samsung phone I've ever used that was like that.
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Re:Notes on Analytics and Tracking in Onavo Protect for iOS by marak830 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:12PM (#16532143)
That would almost make me upgrade my note 3 to another Samsung. If it wasn't for their Geo locking.
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