I’ve had a Galaxy S22+ for 2 years and still want to use it. When I look up how to maximize privacy on Android, many results say to install custom ROMs which I can’t since its a US model and the bootloader is locked. I just want to minimize tracking and sharing of personal information. I could use a firewall app like RethinkDNS to block trackers, but could I completely block tracking from Google and Samsung? Are there any lists of packages to uninstall to improve privacy? (I’ve used ADB to remove a bunch of bloatware. Ex: pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.arzone)
It’s an exercise in futility, but there are some things you can do. removing packages with ADB is a good start. I just copy pasted a list of all the packages I had installed and I asked chat GPT what each one did and went through and decided which ones I wanted to keep.A DNS filter is also a pretty good. That should filter out some of the tracker. But if you’ve got any meta apps or similar, then pretty much pointless to try doing anything to be honest. I moved to Grpheneos a while back, absolutely love it, it’s beautiful.