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My LineageOS phone is technically an Android, and there have been no unwa(rra)nted downloads. You probably mean Android consumer phones. Is this the case for e

• seszett 3y ago
  My own phone is on LineageOS, but we have a few Samsung phones at work and they don't have special apps other than the Samsung browser, music, etc apps, nothing particularly obnoxious. My phone was on Xiaomi's MIUI before and although Xiaomi includes many extra apps, some of them useless to me, there were no ads or third-party apps either and even the useless ones somewhat made sense (for Xiaomi's domotics system, etc). I seem to remember that Xiaomi specifically disabled ads on phones in Europe though, so maybe that's not the case in the US.
  • imp0cat 3y ago
    Samsung has been getting much better recently about the ability to uninstall apps that you don't really want or need. But it wasn't always like this. :(
  • BLKNSLVR 3y ago
    Currently a Xiaomi owner with stock firmware (waiting for LineageOS to catch up), and whilst I don't get any advertising[0], I know that the phone seems to be pretty chatty with IP addresses in China at times, as my firewall picks them off (when the phone is on wifi). There are Xiaomi apps that I'm unable to uninstall (without root as I currently am, which I find mildly annoying. [0]: I run a Pihole on my home network, but still don't get advertising when I'm on the unprotected mobile network