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Re:Google warns Android might not remain free because of EU ... by kllrnohj on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @01:36PM (#17560386)
Simply hitting "disable" warns you that it will uninstall updates & delete user data.

It's literally a single button press to get back 100% of the space possible, and it's the button called "disable" right in front at the top of the app's info section.

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Re:Google warns Android might not remain free because of EU ... by enriquto on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @02:38PM (#17560963)
It's infuriatingly confusing and it's not clear that you will get back 100% of the space. If they are sincere about this, why cannot you simply fucking uninstall the damn application ? No stub, no nothing. Just a normal app like the others, that you can install or not.
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Re:Google warns Android might not remain free because of EU ... by kllrnohj on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @02:55PM (#17561100)
Because it's on the system partition which is fixed size and read-only. That's how factory reset works, by nuking the data partition.

They probably should just lie and rename the button to uninstall. That's basically what it is.

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