I don’t understand why people get so agitated when someone asks these kinds of questions. It’s their phone, and they have the right to do whatever they want with it, whether that means uninstalling Vanadium, the app store, Auditor, or anything else.
The only responsibility others have is to clearly warn them that these changes are not intended by the system design and could break functionality. If the person understands the risks and is willing to accept the consequences, then that’s their decision. At the end of the day, it’s up to them how they choose to use their device.
Also, recommending “dumb phones” to people especially for digital detox doesn’t make any sense. they are insecure, rely heavily on cellular networks for communication, and most don’t allow installation of secure messaging apps like Signal. That can actually reduce a person’s overall security and privacy rather than improve it.
If someone understands the trade offs and still wants to proceed, we should respect that choice instead of reacting emotionally.
gristle-cause Deleting Vanadium would break the Uber app, among others
Iam not sure this is true because Vanadium browser and Vanadium webview are different apps and those apps use the webview not the Vanadium browser. I cant confirm this because i haven't tried it nor planning to do such things.
Novalissoide Dont be like apple saying that is how it is designed and use it only in that way.
Android and especially GrapheneOS is about freedom, here OP is not a noob and doing something by not knowing what he is doing, he already mentioned he have done this on other android. We can warn him, but there’s no need to criticize him for his decision.
thales To my understanding when an app is installed its handled by the android package manager and in simple words its linked to the user profiles, if you uninstall it then it wont be available to any profiles. as it doesnt exists separately only each profiles, so i dont think you can keep it in owner and remove from user. If you uninstall app store you wont get the updates for the apps available in the app store but those are included in the next OS update, also not sure if an OS update will ring back those apps.
Again if your are ready to face the issue that may caused by uninstalling system apps go ahed any try it yourself but no one here are supporting using adb and uninstalling system apps including me and probably you will not get any help troubleshooting such issues and no one really goes this way including myslef.