Advertising

com.google.android.adservices.api

Risk: Safe
Source: Android itself
What it is: Advertising

What it is

Introduced in Android 13 privacy sandbox beta components disabled on default.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system/adservices

Commands

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.adservices.api

To put it back:

adb shell cmd package install-existing com.google.android.adservices.api

Every removal listed here is per-user only: the system image is untouched, and the restore command puts the app back from the copy already on the device. Nothing is downloaded.

This is not the directory. Here we say what a package is in general; what happens on your particular television is on your model's entry, and that one wins. The same package can be dead weight on one set and hold the home screen up on another.