In order to have Google Play Services on an Android device, the vendor has to sign a contract with Google. Part of that contract states that the vendor must pre-install Chrome and a bunch of other Google apps as system apps, making them non-removable. Best you can do is disable it, which should be where the uninstall button usually is.

I have heard it should be possible with adb.

But if you don't trust Google Chrome, how can you trust Google Android?

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26383321

You can uninstall any app by using adb shell:

    1. sudo apt-get-install android-tools-adb
    2. Connect phone using usb, choose file transfer
    3. In terminal type: adb shell
    4. On phone allow dialog that appeared
    5. In terminal in adb shell type: pm list package
    6. Find which app is it and uninstall it, eg: pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.facebook.services

Do you get the option to disable it? When you look it up in the apps list?

I don't know about how it is in the latest phones. But at least for older phones apps which are bundled as part of the OS have a version of the program in the read-only system partition which is used to do factory resets.

So disabling deletes the latest version of the software, and stops it from running on the phone.

You can't uninstall Chrome on Android, but it's easy to not use it:

1. Install firefox

2. Settings->Apps, set firefox to be the default browser.

3. In the app setting for Chrome, disable and stop the app.

4. Remove the Google search/assistant widget on your homescreen/desktop and use the Firefox search widget instead.

Not much can be done about the Chrome-based system webview, as far as I know.

You can't realistically remove it w/o going into devtools/root but you can use firefox and set as default browser. For years I have not touched chrome.

the system webview is chrome based. It cannot be uninstalled as far as i can see. The chrome app may be removable tho? Tho i can only disable it on my phone.

Consider buying an iPhone. I'm serious. Google is a spyware company.