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How to permanently disable the annoying "RCS chats" popup in Messages app

There is a two year old Google community question about this, which Google as usual chose not to respond to, and just locked up the question. On my Pixel 6a, I had enabled RCS previously. After seeing ...
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RCS not working on Rooted Pixel 8 even when RCS says "Connected" and SafetyNet passes Device Integrity and Basic Integrity

Google started blocking RCS messages on rooted phones or phones that have bootloader unlocked. See this article: Google Messages RCS is not working on rooted, custom ROM Android phones. As stated in ...
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RCS Messaging Encryption

is there any reason as to why it doesn't support end to end encryption, or is it a feature that they intend to implement at a later time? RCS improves the old SMS by bringing modern features. It ...
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Google's Messages app says text message sent by SMS

Today morning, I got a prompt asking me if I wanted to enable chat features on messages app. I did that and saw the info on the SMS sent yesterday. Dug, to know more, and here's the summary from the ...
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Cannot disable MMS link sharing without creating Samsung account

The phone sending SMS messages with links instead of MMS messages was due to RCS (Rich Communication Services). It was turned on by default in my new phone. Because it was not enabled or not available ...
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RCS Messaging Encryption

The issue here is that RCS is not a Google product/service. Google serves RCS via a service called Chat, and Google Messages (the pre-installed, default SMS app on most Android phones) supports RCS. ...
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