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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 · 4 days ago

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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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Well its known that SoC’s have backdoors on them. Usually it calls home to China, so you can guess what that’s for.
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  So phone like Xiaomi? Sorry, I’m kinda dumb in this
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    Xiaomi is the biggest offender, but all of them do it.
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      Fair. Didn’t know that
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        why do you think richard stallman doesn’t use a smartphone?

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