I came across Shizuku as a root alternative, and while it’s been great at freezing apps, I want to disable certain receivers, services, and SDKs from apps.
Blocker is supposed to do this, but even with Shizuku permission, it does nothing when I try to disable any app components.
Does this actually work, or is root required? If root is needed, are there any alternatives that work with Shizuku?
Canta + Shizuku can wipe any app you want from your phone.
I’m not looking to delete apps, just stop certain components within apps.
For example, my banking app uses the Google Ads, Google Firebase Analytics, and Adobe analytics, and I’d like to disable those from running without uninstalling the banking app.
Basically, it disables the bad parts of an app :)
I used to do this when I was into rooting and custom firmware, but I really don’t want to go full root with my current phone.
maybe you could use TrackerControl?
I actually really like TrackerControl, but use Adguard instead for the same purpose (can’t use them at the same time, unfortunately, since they both work through a local VPN).
The difference, though, is that Blocker stops apps from even loading the component that would “call home”, where TrackerControl and Adguard try to block those connections after they’ve been sent by the app.
Yes, you kind of accomplish the same thing, but I would love to be able to prevent apps from using these SDKs in the first place :)