I have just received a Samsung galaxy fold5 through the post, however I imagine it’s full of bloatware and I’m inexperienced with this type of device. What is the first things that you would do to secure it? Thank you 😊
Edit: I mean to be more privacy focused
I think you confuse security and privacy. Samsung are pretty secure from what I saw. They are not private at all however. You can debloat it with adb and maybe tools such as Universal Android Debloater.
There is a couple of guide such as this one: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1402380-ultimate-samsung-oneui-debloat-privacy-customization-guide/
Hey that’s me!
One thing I noticed is I never updated the app icon customization section. You don’t need Asapticons/Icon mixer. Themepark has an option to add custom icons now!
I can also post my De-Bloater config (root only)/list of apps (that can be used to disable them via ADB) I’ve removed when I update the post in a bit.
I’m still on Fold3/OneUI 5.1 but apps should be similar.
Thank you very much. You’re right there 👍
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I use FOSS applications as much as I can and try to avoid all samsung and google apps. In addition to that I’m always on pi-hole network to block background network requests by Samsung/Google
Some apps I use:
- k9-mail
- Zulip
- Nextcloud/Talk/Notes
- tasks.org
- Signal
- F-Droid
- Magic Earth
- NewPipe
- Keepass2Android
- Brave
- Collabora Office
Don’t think I’d actually recommend Brave to anyone, it’s definitely not as privacy focused as they claim.
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…if you really have trouble finding stuff on how Brave is terrible for privacy, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say you have trouble reading. It’s known by most people that it’s a scam. They sold private user data to machine learning companies, they are predominantly a crypto company who has a browser, they are chromium based, etc
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look up controversies surrounding brave search.
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I mean, the company and the browser is one in the same.
Next level mental gymnastics
That’s quite a list, thank you. I’ll try to implement them 👌
NetGuard is a good app to block internet access to apps you dont want connected to the web.
Send it back and get a Pixel.
