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sunglocto ,

Best thing I can come up with is use a third party camera app, like Simple Camera. Since Google decided to hard-code this into the app, this is your only option aside from using really inconvenient solutions

sunglocto ,

They shouldn’t rely on ads to make money back on a phone IMHO.

sunglocto ,

There are open source, free YouTube clients such as LibreTube that already had this feature. Still don’t understand why people still buy premium when alternatives exist, that are much better.

sunglocto ,

Just use another instance. You can find a list at farside.link

Open-source apps are consistently better than the average closed source app on the playstore (opinion)

Has anyone noticed that apps on F-Droid or that you just get from GitHub are just better than the ultra-popular apps on the play store? Most of them are open source and have no ads or trackers. But this isn’t true on the Play Store at all....

sunglocto OP ,

I guess you can use AltStore. I heard you have to renew the apps every 7 days, though

sunglocto OP ,

Thank you everyone for your repsponses - I’ve decided to take the route of uninstalling Google via ADB.

If anyone is wondering, this is the conmand I used to do it:

adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox

What are Android's Best Weather Apps?

Ever since I started using smart phones, I have been jumping between different weather apps and have not been very satisfied with most of them. I found the apps from the big weather providers like Accuweather and Weather Channel to be bloated and distracting with advertisements and irrelevant news. The app I was closest to being...

sunglocto ,

I use prognoza - it’s open source and has MD3 widgets

github.com/davidtakac/prognoza

I started using it after the weather apps I use were just so fucking bloated I gave up and looked for another solution

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