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The original was posted on /r/android by /u/167819 on 2023-08-07 13:13:09+00:00.

I am privately an iPhone user but at work we have android phones. I’m having trouble with handing these devices out as they often come riddled with non-business apps, ads on the homescreen, promts to sign up for all kinds of third-party services and clouds, aggressively suggesting articles from the web…is this a thing?

How is this normally dealt with?

Is this commonly accepted?

I just unpacked 8 new Poco X4 Pro 5G and I am kind of tripped up by all this stuff, I mean I am aware of google feed and that it can be disabled but all these “news” just look like ads and the fact that it’s in the homescreen of the OS by default makes it feel so sketchy.

I know it’s not a high end phone and I don’t hate on anything, I’m sure the devices are fine to use. But booting it up reminded me so much of these like 2010-era “free ringtone / wallpaper” sms susbripction scams or these browser toolbars that would inject spam everywhere.

Did we choose the wrong devices, I find it hard to believe that this is normal? How is this spread among android devices, is this a standard? If yes, what is actually done in the industry?