TheFederatedPipe, 4 months ago

@gone Hello from Kbin! To my understanding, changing OS to something like #GrapheneOS is probably better and more secure than just removing all the bloat from the system, since you can't actually delete to a 100% all the proprietary components from #Google and your manufacture without breaking your phone, as far as I know, graphene has features that no other ROM nor #AOSP have which are better for privacy, and treats all the apps as equal for better security.

TheHatedOne (youtube) has a series of videos about grapheneOS that may have the answer you want.

1. Here's How They Built The Most Secure Phone On The Planet (youtube)
2. Exclusive Interview With A GrapheneOS Developer (youtube)
3. My Phone Is Anonymous Now (youtube)

But in my opinion, deleting all the #bloat with adb is better than nothing, so, you are good to go, more if you can't afford to buy a pixel, #android has a good sandbox for apps AFAIK.

Here is a list of apps you can delete from XDA Forums
Universal Android Debloater, a GUI to debloat non-root android

After all, I recommend you to use a firewall like NetGuard to block everything by default and just allowing a few apps of your choice, or TrackerControl to again, block everything, but to block trackers from apps you allowed to connect to the internet.