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  2. Pre-installed software - Wikipedia

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    Android 4.0 attempted to address these issues by allowing users to "disable" apps—which hides them from application menus and prevents them from running. However, this does not remove the software from the device entirely, and they still consume storage unless they are removed via unsupported modifications.

  3. Software bloat - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Windows has also been criticized as being bloated – with reference to Windows Vista and discussing the new, greatly slimmed down Windows 7 core components, Microsoft engineer Eric Traut commented that "This is the core of Windows 7. This is a collection of components that we've taken out.

  4. Rooting (Android) - Wikipedia

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    Systemless root uses various techniques to gain root access without modifying the system partition of a device. Some root applications may include a "hiding" function, which makes attempts to mask the effects and results of rooting, often by whitelisting certain applications for the root or blocking access to affected files. [34]

  5. Android App Bundle - Wikipedia

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    Android App Bundle is the Android application publishing file format.The App Bundle must include the application's compiled code and resources, which allows for the signing and generation of APK files to be deferred to the app store, reducing the initial download size of the app. [1] The file extension used for this format is ".aab".

  6. Bloatware - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 11 July 2019, at 03:03 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  7. Kingo Root - Wikipedia

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    Digital Trends said that using an app is "one of the easiest ways to root your Android device", and included KingoRoot in its list of most reliable rooting apps. [10] A long thread on the respected xda-developers Web site concluded, with detailed information and links, that the similarly named app KingRoot should be considered adware and ...

  8. List of most-downloaded Google Play applications - Wikipedia

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    It's worth noting that many of the applications in this list are distributed pre-installed on top-selling Android devices [2] and may be considered bloatware by some people because users did not actively choose to download them. [3] The table below shows the number of Google Play apps in each category.

  9. Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal - Wikipedia

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    Sony BMG quickly released software to remove the rootkit component of XCP from affected Microsoft Windows computers, [15] but after Russinovich analyzed the utility, he reported in his blog that it only exacerbated the security problems and raised further concerns about privacy. [16]