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Google have SafetyNet that is triggered when you uninstall preinstalled Facebook or YouTube from the phone, but not when OS is 5 years old.
Not that checking if device is old will be a good idea eather...
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Not sure what you mean SafetyNet being triggered when uninstalling apps? Though I don't know what OEMs are doing on their devices, Pixel doesn't come with Facebook pre-installed and YouTube is pre-installed on the system image so you can't really uninstall it. Maybe this is some specific OEM doing something odd on their device? Which device do you see it on? What is the experience caused by SafetyNet being triggered?  This wasn't direct or serious. Ah okay! I don't think you will ever get the ability to delete things from the system partition, because (1) that is always read-only (only modified by the boot loader and that is important), (2) it would mean factory reset couldn't return you to the original state, and (3) even if you did, you couldn't use the space because it would only free that space in the system partition, not data partition. OEMs are encouraged to use Play Auto Install instead. |
Actually checking how old the software is, would be probably not such a bad idea. But it would force giggle partners to provide security updates.
The EU will do that in the next years (effectively from 2025 for 5 years I seen to remember), but Google could do that too. They don't.