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Re:Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware by ajnin on Monday January 13, 2020 @08:48PM (#22041043)
The fact they they are installed in a read-only partition is what makes them non-removable, if they were installed in the regular partition then the "system" partition wouldn't need to be so big, they would be removable and you could reclaim the space.
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Re:Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware by lern_too_spel on Monday January 13, 2020 @10:55PM (#22041703)
Then you couldn't factory reset without access to a network, as I pointed out.
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