[Android General] jubilantLizard9:
@Agret may I ask you to comment on the details of this script?

I see that you are deleting many built-in packages, but would you, maybe, able to tell which ones implement what feature, and which Google ones replace them?

I am sorry for asking you to spend additional effort on this, given that you have already invested a lot of your time into writing this script, but Android evolves extremely quickly, and knowing which "feature" (anti-features) are now trendy both in China and in the West would be very useful.

Does the order of de-installation matter? I see that the list is not really sorted.

So far, I "sort of" figured out that:

1. 'com.oneplus.*' and 'com.oplus.*' things seem to be largely remaining since the time when Oneplus was an independent(-ish) company, and do not seem to spy on you too much, except, maybe "crashbox", which I would expect to send crashdumps to OPPO ;

2. 'com.coloros.*' seem to be coming from the "color os", that is, are common to all OPPO devices, and are effectively re-branded AOSP's programs, such as "video" and "gallery3d" (also, you have "com.coloros.remoteguardservice" listed twice);

3. "com.heytap.*" seem to be OPPO's "cloud" (other person's computer) services clients, and seem to be the most invasive.

4. There is also a bunch of frequenty used in China, but largely worthless elsewhere apps, such as "tv.danmaku.bili" (BiliBili, Youtube clone), and "com.eg.android.AlipayGphone", Alipay. Those might be spying on you too, but if you are in China, you are probably likely to install them anyway.

There are also programs which seem to not fit into any of those categories:

1. com.qualcomm.atfwd -- why would you delete something from Qualcomm?

2. com.android.mms, com.android.traceur, com.android.email - those seem to be from AOSP verbatim, why would you delete them?

3. com.tencent.soter.soterserver, com.wapi.wapicertmanage - what do these guys do?

It's just that even though I am not particularly happy about OPPO spying on me, I am not particularly keen on Google spying on me either, and when using programs I prefer using those which the least depend on BigTech Brothers.

From Google I use: Gboard, OneDrive, Account (I do have my contacts stored at Google, but since I use Gmail, it seems unavoidable), and Gmail. (I end up using Docs sometimes, when other programmes cannot open files I need.)

I would also like to list apps which are, seemingly, duplicating in their feature set, which might be useful for the Chinese users who don't want to move to Google (and use a vpn), but still want to debloat the OS.

1. Input methods: com.baidu.input_oppo, com.sohu.inputmethod.sogouoem

2. Browsers: com.heytap.browser, com.UCMobile

3. Book readers: com.dragon.read, com.heytap.book

4. Car integration for China: com.heytap.opluscarlink, com.oplus.ocar, com.oplus.cardigitalkey

5. Device finder: com.heytap.mydevices, com.coloros.findmyphone

6. Galleries: com.coloros.gallery3d, com.heytap.pictorial

7. App markets: com.heytap.market, com.oppo.store, com.jingdong.app.mall

8. Mail clients: there seem to be at least two, but I haven't found them.

9. Some kind of search: com.heytap.quicksearchbox, com.baidu.searchbox

10. Parental control (turn your kid into a paranoid freak): com.coloros.childrenspace, com.coloros.familyguard

Mysterious apps: com.heytap.mcs, com.heytap.yoli, com.coloros.assistantscreen, com.coloros.securepay, com.heytap.colorfulengine, com.heytap.tas, com.heytap.vip, com.nearme.instant.platform, com.oplus.lfeh, com.tencent.soter.soterserver, com.heytap.htms, com.coloros.codebook, com.coloros.colordirectservice.

I wouldn't mind knowing what they do.

UPD1: I am also surpsised that you are not installing Google Play Store. And if you could write which of those google apps are strictly necessary, and which are optional, it would be great.

UPD2: Is there a way to remove this stupid pop-up which appears each time I connect the phone via USB to my computer? Is there some OPPO package responsible for that which I could just delete? It is incredibly annoying, as I don't want to manually click this stupid window each time I want to upload an app to the phone.