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Comment by parthdesai | Hacker News Reader

Uninstalled Fb app and messenger long time ago. I can't uninstall whatsapp even if i wanted to and it's hard to uninstall Instagram.

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I remember uninstalling Facebook was pretty difficult. I was only able to truly get rid of it by rooting my phone(I didn't do it for that purpose, but that ended up being one benefit). They must pay Samsung a lot of money because there's no good reason why a non-critical app would be so hard to remove.

I can't uninstall whatsapp because my entire family communicates via whatsapp.

I convinced my family to move to Signal. Perhaps try that.

Conversely I found Line messenger works well. :-)

Sure, i can try to convince my immediate family. But cousins and everyone? It's too much to ask

Wouldn't merely disabling the app (in system -> applications) have accomplished the same except for freeing up a couple hundred megs of storage on the system partition? Disabled apps don't have their services run.

Yes, but I also want that space. Nothing changes the fact that it really doesn't have a right to be there. :)

Also, there were other apps that I could only disable. I think YouTube might have been one of them, and I would really prefer to use NewPipe instead. So once I was rooted it was kind of like "Well, might as well delete ALL of that crap."

I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime and was able to uninstall Facebook the same way that you would uninstall any other Facebook app. It's the first Samsung phone I've ever used that was like that.

That would almost make me upgrade my note 3 to another Samsung. If it wasn't for their Geo locking.

Uninstalled all Facebook apps as soon as I got my phone, a few months ago, but only recently discovered there were two remaining hidden apps that didn't show up in the normal app list: https://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-lg-v10/help/suspici...

Before I disabled them, one of them was running.

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