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Re:Debloat non-rooted Android devices by Defletter on Sunday March 17, 2024 @07:43AM (#39733753)
> dark patterns designed to extract as much data from you as possible

It's insane how prevalent this is. The other day, I opened my calculator app and was met with a cookie banner (https://imgur.com/a/njJEiqY) - I uninstalled it on the spot out of sheer incredulity. The irony was that I originally installed Simple Calculator because it was simple and open source, so I presumed it would escape being a trojan horse for data collection. I guess not.

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Re:Debloat non-rooted Android devices by Dudhbbh3343 on Sunday March 17, 2024 @07:48AM (#39733777)
All the "Simple" apps were recently sold to a company that's apparently filling them with ads.

There's a group that forked the original open source apps:

https://github.com/orgs/FossifyOrg/repositories

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Re:Debloat non-rooted Android devices by crtasm on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:43AM (#39734107)
Wow, terrible news aboue the sale. I trust the copies I installed from f-droid won't be updated then.
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