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Re: Canta debloater experience?

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Martin Schöön wrote:
> Maybe this is old news but I don't read every post here.
> 
> Anyone using Canta debloater?
> https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.samolego.canta/

Debloating is an art, but it's not for the faint of heart.

Canta is just a front end to adb, which is what does the uninstalling
of the app from the user partition (many remain in the system partition).
 <https://github.com/samolego/Canta>

Canta, in particular, either requires a rooted phone, or it requires
Shizuku, which itself requires adb which then runs as the shell user.

So what's the advantage of Canta over just using adb from the PC?
 a. Canta works standalone (if set up as wireless adb) on the phone
 b. And Canta uses the UAD debloater database (safe & expert levels)

So Canta is just a GUI on top of adb, with its own complexities.
The added complexities are in setting up Shizuku over wireless adb.

the simplicity is that you get a GUI on the phone to do debloating.
And, you get a vetted listing of apps which are known safe to debloat.

See also this XDA Developers thread on AppVault versus Canta
 *AppVault Remove Bloatware Without a PC No Root Shizuku-Based Debloater*
 <https://xdaforums.com/t/appvault-remove-bloatware-without-a-pc-no-root-shizuku-based-debloater.4782937/>

Note that Muntashirakon App Manager, which is a Swiss Army Knife of
installation/removal utilities, indicates which packages are bloatware.

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