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Why are we still fighting smartphone bloatware in 2025?

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Why are we still fighting smartphone bloatware in 2025?

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Android@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

I was excited to dive into my new smartphone only to once again waste precious time uninstalling bloatware before I could enjoy it.

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it quite literally takes 5 minutes with a WebUSB installer.

With a supported phone, on a Chromium browser on Windows. It takes much more than that usually, depending on device, to unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM
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