[gruez]

Does debloating using this method actually eliminate the phone-home/telemetry functionality? Or is there still some left from the packages that can't be disabled (eg. telemetry code is in frameworks-base)? Personally I don't trust xiaomi enough to settle for a bunch of pm disable commands. It has to be a clean install (eg. lineageos).

[mcraiha]

Most phone manufacturers can force update certain components. So even if you would uninstall all additional "phone home" packages, the system could still install more https://www.hexnode.com/mobile-device-management/help/how-to...

[paulcarroty]

It doesn't, Android telemetry hidden deeply inside. You can't disable it with build flags or packages removing.

Xiaomi caught many times on stealing user data: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Xiaomi+browser