Meet Jesse Nunez, an avid opponent of bloatware on smartphones.

Nunez clearly doesn’t work for a smartphone maker or a wireless carrier. For the past four years, he’s been using third-party software to strip off unwanted apps on his various models of Samsung Galaxy S smartphones sold by AT&T.

He’s not running any organized anti-bloatware movement, but communicates often online with like-minded users. During the day, he’s a salesman of custom car wheels in the Los Angeles area. When he talks about bloatware, Nunez sounds like he’s running for office on a platform to liberate the smartphone — or at least the ways customers use them. He once signed an online Change.org petition urging carriers and smartphone makers to stop adding unwanted apps that can sap the device’s resources, take up valuable storage space and potentially cause disruptions or even security issues.

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