Are any important things crammed into the Google app? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by BoyetLeonantus@sh.itjust.works to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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I'm not sure about my phone, maybe I'd like to keep Google Lens, but on a TV box it seems completely unnecessary. Its identifier com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox also sounds like it shouldn't contain anything important for the working of a device, but who knows with Google. Is there anything unexpected that would stop working when uninstalling / disabling updates for this?

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[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Some links won't open, Gemini won't work and the quick search will become limited or unusable. Other than that I don't remember anything important. That app is definitely worth disabling

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