Uninstalling useless default add-ons

    Although they are add-ons, they are 'core' Kodi capabilities and Kodi expects them to be present, hence they are pre-installed and reside inside the squashfs SYSTEM file which is expanded into a virtual filesystem on each boot. You cannot delete something that exists inside a read-only file.

    As 99%+ of users will use the Generic album scraper to scrape their albums, it makes sense to include it in the embedded filesystem instead of incurring bandwidth and the inconvenience of having to download/install it. As Mr Spock says .. "the needs of the many outweight the needs of the few".

    If you want to remove it you need to compile your own custom LE image that omits it as a default installed item. You are welcome to do that (all the sources are public and GPLv2) but staff aren't going to be too interested in spoon-feeding instructions, you will need to figure out how on your own. The easier option is to ignore it and/or don't use the generic scraper.

    Quote from dislocate6236

    So here too I am forced to use something I don't need. You're one of the funny kind. Not use? Like if I can't disable it?

    Nobody forced you to use the LibreElec. It's only your choice if you use it or not. Also it's open source, if you don't like something, you are free to make your own version.

    And what is your task then? What is not to understand about it? When I say I'm forced to use something that has no use for me. Of course, it's my decision, but then only with these add-ons, whether you like it or not. If it were, why can't I deactivate it? Correct. Because it is not wanted. Because this way you can also have access to these numbers. In other words, surveillance…..

    Feel free to use the Kodi 'snap' on Ubuntu:

    a) You have the ability to remove anything you like, anytime

    b) You become some other distro's support problem

    From our perspective that's a win/win scenario :)