When Android was initially announced in 2007 by the Open Handset Alliance (headed by Google) their flagship project was billed as an "open…
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You can uninstall it, it just breaks some things. Internet explorer was worse

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Not through any of the conventional means.

You’ve gotta find and manually take ownership of all its files then delete them all. You also have to remove it’s updater service first (the same way) or it’ll re-install itself immediately.

Even then, it’ll re-install with system updates.

The only reason it breaks anything is several system services like the general help dialog and news+weather are permanently hard-coded to ignore the default browser setting and use Edge exclusively. There’s no good reason for this.

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Yeah, it is rediculous that they do that and I’m surprised they haven’t faced another antitrust suit for it.

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