You don’t need to do anything wild to stop using Chrome on your Android phone! I have a stock ROM too, and I’ve got plenty of options for more private Chrome (and Firefox!) forks. Depending on what you use on your desktop, there’s probably an equally private equivalent for your phone.
Desktop Firefox? Mobile Firefox. With bookmark sync.
Desktop Waterfox? Mobile Waterfox! Or Fennec or IronFox for something more private.
Desktop Brave? Mobile Brave.
Desktop Chromium? Cromite is great. It even has a little ad blocking now.
Problem is, on a stock android you can’t remove chrome, only hide it. So my point is, if they decide to force the model download on a chrome update, even if you never use it, it’ll still ruin a good chunk of your storage space.
Your phone doesn’t let you uninstall updates and disable the app?! I’ve had good luck with that, and if it didn’t work I would try Shizuku next, but YMMV depending on the phone model…
You don’t need to do anything wild to stop using Chrome on your Android phone! I have a stock ROM too, and I’ve got plenty of options for more private Chrome (and Firefox!) forks. Depending on what you use on your desktop, there’s probably an equally private equivalent for your phone.
I can’t believe people still use chrome I can’t stand ads or not being able to play videos in the background.
I have stopped using chrome on mobile too.
Problem is, on a stock android you can’t remove chrome, only hide it. So my point is, if they decide to force the model download on a chrome update, even if you never use it, it’ll still ruin a good chunk of your storage space.
Your phone doesn’t let you uninstall updates and disable the app?! I’ve had good luck with that, and if it didn’t work I would try Shizuku next, but YMMV depending on the phone model…