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All I want is for my stupid phone to stop annoying me with new features I don't want. Google just now suggested with a notification that I should ask its voice thing a question and try it out.

Every time I think I've blocked every $_#&#- thing that annoys me, more show up. As of a week ago I now get these Throw notifications that cannot be dismissed or blocked.

I also despise apps that insist on being updated and disallow being uninstalled.

These itches are so bad now that I'm pretty disenchanted with Android altogether.

I want a no nonsense phone that literally does nothing out of the box except the app store and make phone calls.



Give me a phone like you describe that also doesn't track you and I'm sold.


It's called an iPhone: https://www.apple.com/iphone/


Can't we assume everything you do on an iPhone is also tracked?


Can I uninstall all the apple apps be that come with it?


Effectively most of them, yes.


Most except safari


And you can kill that under "restrictions" if you want to...


Google Now is malware that can't be removed and is constantly showing you ads and spying on your behavior (look at the app integrations menu). The best you can do is go through the disable-athon menu, but that only works until the next update.

It's an impressive bit of technology though, I've never seen an app so good at telling me exactly what I didn't care about, exactly 10 minutes after I would have cared about it.


Now is optional. I've never used it.


If it can't be deleted then it's not optional. Even disabling it is obfuscated behind signing out, but I don't know if it still sends data to google or not.




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