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Thankfully those are most often bundled as stubs that take barely any space. roll back the updates and then disable. Did that to Chrome for the longest time as
by digi_owl 8y ago
Thankfully those are most often bundled as stubs that take barely any space. roll back the updates and then disable. Did that to Chrome for the longest time as i was using Firefox on my Android device (before Mozilla went nuts. Now i am flipflopping between Opera and Brave, while waiting for Vivaldi to get a mobile version).
- mehrdadn 8y agoKeep in mind that (a) if the fact that you have to roll back updates is not obvious to people here, I'm not sure how a normal user is supposed to find it "easy", and (b) if you have to roll it back too, you'd lose your data in that app, so it's neither as consequence-free as disabling, nor as thorough as deleting (freeing all the space etc.).
- kllrnohj 8y agoSimply hitting "disable" warns you that it will uninstall updates & delete user data. It's literally a single button press to get back 100% of the space possible, and it's the button called "disable" right in front at the top of the app's info section.
- enriquto 8y agoIt's infuriatingly confusing and it's not clear that you will get back 100% of the space. If they are sincere about this, why cannot you simply fucking uninstall the damn application ? No stub, no nothing. Just a normal app like the others, that you can install or not.
- kllrnohj 8y agoBecause it's on the system partition which is fixed size and read-only. That's how factory reset works, by nuking the data partition. They probably should just lie and rename the button to uninstall. That's basically what it is.