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If you aren't very smart, you should probably not be rooting. What exactly are you trying to accomplish with rooting that you can't do otherwise?
If you're trying to disable applications, you can do that with ADB. If you're trying to delete them; know that they live in the system partition and will not free up any space.
to be honest, i'm not sure, just because i can doesn't mean that I should. I suppose I just wanted to be able to remove bloat and get a add blocker.
If you want to remove bloat, you can use this software. It doesn't require root. Just be careful to not disable important system apps otherwise you can make your tablet unusable and will have to find a way to go to recovery and factory reset.
https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation
I used it on a friend's cheap Chinese phone and it removed a lot of stuff. The phone was much better after that, but of course, be extra careful to not remove important stuff.
Good luck!
Anything you think is bloat, can be uninstalled, and then disabled. Root isn't required for this, and deleting apps via root doesn't gain you anything because the apps are installed in the system partition and not any of the user partitions. Android has this capability built in.
Switch to Firefox and set it as your default browser for the device and install the uBlock origin addon for it (you can install this from within the firefox app). It won't get rid of all ads, but will work while you're browsing any web pages.
If you're not technically minded, or don't have some sort of linux/command line experience, you're likely to just brick your device irreparably.
You can also probably block ads by changing your DNS provider manually in the settings to something like dns.adguard.com - which will basically do the same thing a PiHole on your local network would. It'll essentially null-route your requests to the ad servers.
oh i see. I am slightly tech inclined, but im just not phone smart if that makes sense. I always make sure to install ublock on my firefox's (mobile, pc). and what should I use to remove the stock apps?. and while my browser is ad-free, I was wondering if i could block in-app ads? and thank you for informing me about everything!.
You can just go into the uninstall screen to uninstall and then disable preinstalled applications. Disabling them causes Android to hibernate them, essentially - meaning they don't ever fire up on their own again, and since they're installed in the system partition, you don't necessarily lose any space by them being there, because you don't gain any space back by removing them.
There are multiple ad-blocker apps that use your phone...as a VPN loopback, which can then intercept and block ads for the whole device. I don't know of a particular one to suggest, as I run my own adblocked network from home and rely on a similar, but ultimately different method.
thank you, i'll look into it!
Get PersonalDNSfilter from playstore or fdroid. It's a system wide dns blocker app. This is for your system wide adblocking needs.
perhaps there is a better way to achieve this?