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Genuine question, why go to the trouble of switching to a privacy focused os then install Meta apps? Do you just not like Google?
even government agencies work through whatsapp in my country. there's no escape from them if you want to exist in society with the way things are right now.
I get that, but change will never come with compromise.
change will not be coming from social isolation either
No one is suggesting social isolation.
quitting some of these apps in some parts of the world will leave you incommunicable.
Not OP but I think Facebook also trapped a lot of users with marketplace. I don't use it but my wife does. Where we live you ain't selling anything if it not on Marketplace. Unfortunately it's a useful service. I've got 3 kids so our house is a revolving door of Marketplace.
For one, I was getting really irritated about the apps my google device wouldnt let me delete, and also the apps I wanted to side load. That being said, I definitely don't like meta. I have an app on my PC called caprine. I wouldn't download first party meta apps, but these are the apps my friends use to talk, so if there is a workaround, I was just asking about that
FYI you can use a combination of Shizuku and Canta to get rid of pretty much any Google app on an Android phone. Useful tip I got here recently.
Pay it forward.
How do they work? Those tools actually delete system apps?
To be honest I'm not sure they work under the hood but they use debug mode and some other stuff to do what they do. Yes they can remove system apps, pretty much anything. They have a traffic light system to warn you about whether its safe to remove some things. Green is good, orange is a bit risky, red is riskier again. The risk usually relates to the impact on other apps or functions working.
Twas pretty easy to set up.
Edit: Screenshot addition. Not quite traffic light system but you get me. Unless they have illuminous pink traffic lights somewhere!
Fair enough. Good luck with the switch!