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0 pointsxg155y ago0 comments

> They can't be removed because they are on the read-only system image but they should be treated the same was as if they weren't there if they are disabled.

The "just pretend I'm not here :)" of software development.

It was a conscious decision to mark them as "system apps" and put them on the system partition. They didn't have to do that.

Also note that android apps are more equivalent to plugins or shell extensions than executables. An app can register various OS hooks and callbacks that can trigger behaviour even if no process of that app is running. I'm not sure all those hooks are unregistered if an app is deactivated.

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edoceo5y ago· 1 in thread

It seems to me they are, I've disabled youtube and all youtube links open in Firefox, just as nature intended.

xg15OP5y ago

Ah, fair enough - I wasn't aware of that. If that's indeed what "deactivate" does, it's an option.

It still seems wasteful for space to me and more prone to bugs (e.g. if some hook is forgotten in the disable routine).

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