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Re:My debloating experience with Poco F3 by gruez on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:59PM (#28095571)
Does debloating using this method actually eliminate the phone-home/telemetry functionality? Or is there still some left from the packages that can't be disabled (eg. telemetry code is in frameworks-base)? Personally I don't trust xiaomi enough to settle for a bunch of pm disable commands. It has to be a clean install (eg. lineageos).
Re:My debloating experience with Poco F3 by mcraiha on Saturday August 07, 2021 @02:36AM (#28096306)
Most phone manufacturers can force update certain components. So even if you would uninstall all additional "phone home" packages, the system could still install more https://www.hexnode.com/mobile-device-management/help/how-to...
Re:My debloating experience with Poco F3 by paulcarroty on Saturday August 07, 2021 @03:05AM (#28096449)
It doesn't, Android telemetry hidden deeply inside. You can't disable it with build flags or packages removing.

Xiaomi caught many times on stealing user data: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Xiaomi+browser