Permanently remove icons from Dock

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I have Maps, Photos and iBooks icons returning to my dock after a reboot even though I removed them several times already. Is there some way to remove them? They seem to be set as defaults, can I change these defaults somehow?

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This answers it partially. When I encountered the same problem on El Capitan, these steps solved it.

Disable System Integrity Protection.
sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "delete:add-app" /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/com.apple.dockfixup.plist sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "delete:add-doc" /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/com.apple.dockfixup.plist
Re-enable System Integrity Protection.

I referred to another discussion for PlistBuddy

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    <array>
            <dict>
                    <key>path</key>
                    <string>/Applications/App Store.app</string>
                    <key>after</key>
                    <string>begin</string>
            </dict>
            <dict>
                    <key>after</key>
                    <string>/Applications/Safari.app</string>
                    <key>path</key>
                    <string>/Applications/FaceTime.app</string>
            </dict>
    </array>

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