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<blockquote data-quote="Suburban Yahoo" data-source="post: 1496256" data-attributes="member: 21860">I really don't follow the installing of alternate degoogled OS on phones much, so I don't know what it takes for Samsung.&nbsp; There is a utility called adb that the XDA developers describe somewhere how to &quot;debloat&quot; various phones, removing apps.&nbsp; But I've heard that if you deGoogle your Samsung phone, you still have to deSamsung as well which is dicey because they warn about boot loops because you removed some critical Samsung app.I'd prefer to do tracker blocking.For example, there is Blokada (blokada.org), an app you'd have to sideload (the one in the Play store is limited), and runs as a local VPN endpoint (but doesn't connect to a VPN server), and is somewhat configurable on what it blocks.&nbsp; I've used it before, but I use NextDNS now, which is at nextdns.io and offers a Samsung list to block Samsung tracking.&nbsp; It has an Apple one, a Windows one, some other but oddly enough, no Google one.&nbsp; But it's very configurable and offers a ton of lists which catch a lot of Google stuff, see below; this is just the top of my blocked list.[ATTACH=full]32066[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Suburban Yahoo, post: 1496256, member: 21860"] I really don't follow the installing of alternate degoogled OS on phones much, so I don't know what it takes for Samsung. There is a utility called adb that the XDA developers describe somewhere how to "debloat" various phones, removing apps. But I've heard that if you deGoogle your Samsung phone, you still have to deSamsung as well which is dicey because they warn about boot loops because you removed some critical Samsung app. I'd prefer to do tracker blocking. For example, there is Blokada (blokada.org), an app you'd have to sideload (the one in the Play store is limited), and runs as a local VPN endpoint (but doesn't connect to a VPN server), and is somewhat configurable on what it blocks. I've used it before, but I use NextDNS now, which is at nextdns.io and offers a Samsung list to block Samsung tracking. It has an Apple one, a Windows one, some other but oddly enough, no Google one. But it's very configurable and offers a ton of lists which catch a lot of Google stuff, see below; this is just the top of my blocked list. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Untitled.png"]32066[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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