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Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA

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845 points the-anarchist | 2 comments | 21 Jun 25 03:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.446s | source
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grishka ◴[21 Jun 25 03:52 UTC] No.44334337[source]▶
The "unremovable" part is inaccurate. While you can't completely remove it because it resides on the system partition, you most probably can still disable it with an adb command:

    adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.package.name
This command is very powerful as it works for any app, even those that have "disable" greyed out in the settings. I disabled the Galaxy Store on my S9 this way for example.
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hysan ◴[21 Jun 25 04:02 UTC] No.44334391[source]▶
> "unremovable"

> you can't completely remove it

Maybe my English isn’t very good but that sounds like the definition of unremovable.

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charcircuit ◴[21 Jun 25 04:33 UTC] No.44334534[source]▶
It's in a read only filesystem. You can't modify read only data, but you can choose to ignore it.
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1. ashirviskas ◴[21 Jun 25 17:47 UTC] No.44339345[source]▶
Only because it is mounted as one. It is like saying that you can't have your house in pink because it is green.
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2. charcircuit ◴[21 Jun 25 19:15 UTC] No.44340011[source]▶
If you modify a file on the partition the device will fail to boot. Your metaphor is not equivalent because it ignores security.