#!/bin/bash declare -a amazon_bloat=( "com.amazon.mShop.android" # Amazon Shopping (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.mShop.android.shopping) "com.amazon.fv" # Amazon App suite. Provides access to Amazon digital content "com.amazon.kindle" # Amazon Kindle (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.kindle) "com.amazon.mp3" # Amazon Music (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.mp3) # Amazon streaming app "com.amazon.venezia" # Amazon AppStore "com.amazon.aa" # Amazon Assistant app. Nice spyware ! # Show you recoomanded products available on Amazon and price compare as you shop across the web. # NOTE : https://www.gadgetguy.com.au/amazon-assistant-spies-on-you/ "com.amazon.aa.attribution" # Amazon Assistant Attribution. A spyware again ! # Tracking tool. Allows sellers to measure the impact of media channels **off Amazon** on sales. # https://www.repricerexpress.com/amazon-attribution/ "com.amazon.mShop.android.shopping" # Amazon Shopping (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.mShop.android.shopping) # Same package as com.amazon.mShop.android. "com.amazon.clouddrive.photos" # Amazon Photos (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.clouddrive.photos) "com.amazon.avod.thirdpartyclient" # Amazon Prime Video (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.avod.thirdpartyclient) # https://www.primevideo.com/ ) declare -a facebook_bloat=( # Facebook packages always run in background and send data to Facebook even if you don't have a Facebook account. "com.facebook.katana" # Facebook app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana) "com.facebook.system" # Facebook App Installer (empty shell app which incite you to install the Facebook app) "com.facebook.appmanager" # Facebook app manager handles Facebook apps updates. "com.facebook.services" # Facebook Services is a tool that lets you manage different Facebook services automatically using your Android device. # In particular, the tool focuses on searching for nearby shops and establishments based on your interests. # I don't know if this a dependency for com.facebook.katana but nobody cares because we all want to delete all the Facebook stuff right ?!! "com.facebook.orca" # Facebook Messenger (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca) "com.instagram.android" # Instagram (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android) "com.whatsapp" # Whatsapp (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp") ) declare -a microsoft_bloat=( "com.microsoft.skydrive" # Microsoft OneDrive (Cloud) (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.skydrive) "com.skype.raider" # Skpype (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skype.raider) "com.microsoft.office.excel" # Excel "com.microsoft.office.word" # Word "com.microsoft.office.outlook" # Outlook "com.microsoft.office.powerpoint" # Powerpoint "com.skype.m2" # Skype Lite (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skype.m2) "com.microsoft.office.officehubhl" # Office Mobile hub (on Samsung Phone) # Includes the complete Word, PowerPoint, and Excel apps to offer a convenient office experience on the go. "com.microsoft.office.officehub" # Microsoft Office Mobile # Includes the complete Word, PowerPoint, and Excel apps to offer a convenient office experience on the go. "com.microsoft.office.officehubrow" # Microsoft Mobile Office Beta "com.microsoft.appmanager" # Your Phone Companion - Link to Windows (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.appmanager) # Microsoft app for synchronising your phone with a W10 PC. ) declare -a misc_bloat=( "com.audible.application" # Cover Audible Audiobooks (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.audible.application) "com.blurb.checkout" # Blurb Checkout # Provides book purchase and checkout for Samsung’s Story Album app (discontinued) "com.booking" # Booking.com app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.booking) # Seriously, you shouldn't use it ! # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booking.com # https://blog.usejournal.com/why-i-would-never-trust-booking-com-again-so-you-should-too-a2ab535ed915?gi=7ebe86eaa880 # https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-09-17-booking-com-manipulation "com.caf.fmradio" # caf = CodeAurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project (https://www.codeaurora.org/) # All their code is open-source. # Provides tools to access FM radio. # OpenSource : https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/fm/tree/fmapp2/src/com/caf/fmradio "com.cequint.ecid" # Caller ID from Cequint (https://www.cequint.com/) # https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-to-launch-caller-id-service-from-cequint # NOTE : Never trust a company which promotes call ID/spam blocking features. # Cequint was acquired by TNS (https://tnsi.com/) # That was not a good thing : https://www.geekwire.com/2013/earnouts-bad-cequint-execs-sue-parent-company/ "com.discoveryscreen" # Appflash (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discoveryscreen) # Verizon Spyware. # https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/update-verizons-appflash-pre-installed-spyware-still-spyware "com.ebay.mobile" # Ebay app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ebay.mobile) "com.eterno" # Daily hunts News. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eterno&hl=en) "com.evernote" # Evernote app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evernote) "com.generalmobi.go2pay" # Go2Pay (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.generalmobi.go2pay) # Payment app that offers mobile pre-paid recharges and post-paid bill payment, data card recharges and bill payment, # DTH recharges through cashless transactions. # DTH = Direct To Home Television "com.gotv.nflgamecenter.us.lite" # Football NFL (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gotv.nflgamecenter.us.lite) "com.hancom.office.editor.hidden" # Legacy Hancom Office Editor (Korean alternative to Microsoft Office). Featured in Samsung and LG phones "com.imdb.mobile" # IMDb mobile app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imdb.mobile) "com.infraware.polarisoffice5" # Polaris Office from US Infraware Inc company (Microsoft Office like) # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_Office # https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.infraware.office.link "com.linkedin.android" # Linkedin app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.linkedin.android) "com.lookout" # Lookout Security & Antivirus (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout) "com.micredit.in" # Mi Credit. Personal Loan app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.micredit.in.gp) "com.netflix.mediaclient" # Netflix app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.mediaclient) "com.netflix.partner.activation" # Netflix activation via partner manufacturer ? "com.niksoftware.snapseed" # Snapseed (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niksoftware.snapseed) "com.nuance.swype.input" # Swype keyboard by Nuance # https://www.nuance.com/mobile/mobile-applications/swype/android.html # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swype "com.opera.branding" # Opera Branding Provider # Don't know what it really does. "com.opera.branding.news" # Opera News Branding Provider # Don't know what it really does. "com.opera.mini.native" # Opera Mini web browser (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.mini.native) "com.opera.preinstall" # It seems to be Opera Max Data saving (discontinued) "com.phonepe.app" # PhonePe (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phonepe.app) # PhonePe is a payments app that allows indian users to use BHIM UPI, your credit card and debit card or wallet to recharge your mobile phone, # pay your utility bills and also make instant payments at offline and online stores. # PhonePe is an indian company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhonePe) # BHIM = Bharat Interface for Money : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHIM # UPI = Unified Payement Interface : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface "com.pure.indosat.care" # myIM3 (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pure.indosat.care) # App provided by Indosat Ooredoo, an Internet provider from Indonesia. # Enables Indosat users to manage prepaid and postpaid numbers and check their credit and payments, purchase data packs, calls, SMS... "com.huaqin.FM" # Radio app from huaqin a chinese company # NOTE : Transistor [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.y20k.transistor/] is much better "com.nextradioapp.nextradio" # NextRadio (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nextradioapp.nextradio) # 3-party app which lets you experience live and local FM radio on your smartphone. # https://nextradioapp.com/ "com.s.antivirus" # AVG Antivirus (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.s.antivirus) for Sony Xperia. "com.slacker.radio" # LiveXLive - Streaming Music and Live Events (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slacker.radio) "net.sharewire.parkmobilev2" # ParkMobile - Find Parking (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sharewire.parkmobilev2) "com.shopee.id" # Shopee 2.2 (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shopee.id) # official app from Shopee, an e-commerce online shopping platform in Southeast Asian. "com.spotify.music" # Spotify app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music) "com.til.timesnews" # India News (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.til.timesnews) # "com.turner.cnvideoapp" # Cartoon network App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.turner.cnvideoapp) "com.tripadvisor.tripadvisor" # Trip advisor (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tripadvisor.tripadvisor) # You should never trust and use trip advisor # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TripAdvisor (see 'Controversy and fraudulent reviews' section) # https://nypost.com/2016/03/01/why-you-should-never-ever-trust-tripadvisor/ "com.UCMobile.intl" # UC Browser by Alibaba (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.UCMobile.intl) # !! Unsecure chinese web browser !! # https://www.quora.com/Whats-wrong-with-UC-Browser # https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2019/05/url-spoofing-uc-browser-android.html "com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.liveweather" # Yahoo Weather (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.weather) # Please boycott Yahoo ! (all of their services are crappy so it's not so difficult) # If you're not aware : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Yahoo! "flipboard.app" # Flipboard News App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flipboard.app) "flipboard.boxer.app" # Briefing app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flipboard.boxer.app) "id.co.babe" # BaBe (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=id.co.babe) # Indonesian news app. "in.mohalla.sharechat" # ShareChat (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.mohalla.sharechat) "net.sharewire.parkmobilev2" # ParkMobile - Find Parking (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sharewire.parkmobilev2) #### QUALCOMM #### # QTI = Qualcomm Technologies Inc # Qualcomm is an American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company # that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products and services. # Qualcomm tracking : https://forum.fairphone.com/t/telemetry-spyware-list-of-privacy-threats-on-fp3-android-9/55179/20 "com.qualcomm.atfwd" # Qualcomm's WiFi display. It allows you to mirror your devices display on a TV # Seems to be used by Mircast. Need to be confirmed tho. "com.qualcomm.qti.auth.fidocryptoservice" # Qualcomm FIDO implementation. # FIDO : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDO_Alliance # Fido is a set of open technical specifications for mechanisms of authenticating users to online services that do not depend on passwords. # https://fidoalliance.org/specs/u2f-specs-1.0-bt-nfc-id-amendment/fido-glossary.html # https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-v2.0-rd-20170927/fido-overview-v2.0-rd-20170927.html "com.qualcomm.qti.perfdump" # Performance dump (logging) # Enable a more accurate overview of the running services (and maybe how much power/RAM they take?) #"com.qualcomm.qti.qms.service.connectionsecurity" # ????? # Background-Connection to tls.telemetry.swe.quicinc.com (Host/Domain belongs to Qualcomm) # CURRENTLY IN TEST / MAY NOT BE SAFE "com.qualcomm.qti.qms.service.telemetry" # Telemetry service. # Yeah obviously it phone to Qualcomm. "com.qualcomm.qti.rcsbootstraputil" "com.qualcomm.qti.rcsimsbootstraputil" # RCS Service # RCS = Rich Communicatin Services. # It's a communication protocol between mobile telephone carriers and between phone and carrier, aiming at replacing SMS messages # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services # Used vorte VolTE and VoWifi. #"com.qualcomm.qti.services.secureui" # Qualcomm Secure UI Service. # Uncertain role... # CURRENTLY IN TEST / MAY NOT BE SAFE "com.qualcomm.qti.uceshimservice" # UCE shim service # UCE = Unified Communications for Enterprise ? (not sure) #"com.qualcomm.timeservice" # [MORE INFO NEEDED] # Qualcomm Time Service # It maybe keeps the real time clock in the Qualcomm processor synchronised with Android time. # Seems not safe to remove. "com.quicinc.cne.CNEService" # Qualcomm service # Automatically switchs between Wifi/3G/4G depending on network performances. # https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2013/07/02/qualcomms-cne-bringing-smarts-3g4g-wi-fi-seamless-interworking #### FONTS #### "com.monotype.android.font.chococooky" "com.monotype.android.font.cooljazz" "com.monotype.android.font.foundation" "com.monotype.android.font.rosemary" #### ANT(+) #### # ANT+ (Adaptive Network Topology) is a proprietary multicast wireless sensor network technology. # It's like Bluetooth low energy, but oriented towards usage with sensors. ANT+ is mostly used for sport tracking devices # https://www.thisisant.com/directory # Somes stuff are open-source : https://github.com/ant-wireless "com.dsi.ant.plugins.antplus" # ANT+ plugin service (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsi.ant.plugins.antplus) "com.dsi.ant.sample.acquirechannels" # I don't know why there is "sample" in the name. Is this package really useful to find ANT channels ? "com.dsi.ant.server" # ANT HAL(Hardware Abstraction Layer) Server "com.dsi.ant.service.socket" # ANT Radio Service (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsi.ant.service.socket) # it is NOT related to Radio FM ! ) "com.trustonic.tuiservice" "com.vlingo.midas" "com.yelp.android.samsungedge"