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Ok this is not as bad as I feared, disable still works and that uninstalls any updates that app has gotten.

It was always a bit surprising you could uninstall an app in a "read only" partition

It would only uninstall it from the /data partition which would cause it to fallback to the version in the /system partition, taking you back to the version included in the last update of your phone's OS.

If an app is installed to both partitions Android uses the one with a higher version.

HN users are so hilariously out of touch with the Android world they are downvoting your completely correct observation.

I'd probably get more useful information reading Hindi Telegram groups without translating anything

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