Comment by microtonal
9 hours ago
Which Android though? AOSP doesn't have ads. But Samsung phones are full of ads for their own and other's services (McAfee VPN, McAfee security scan, OneDrive, etc.). I heard that Chinese phones are similar. Even Pixel pushes Google One in places.
The primary exceptions are GrapheneOS and Lineage, but it's not like people can buy a phone with them in the store (yet).
> I heard that Chinese phones are similar.
My Xiaomi has no adverts.
But then the Samsung S22 I had before didn't have adverts. Certainly didn't come with McAfee.
> But Samsung phones are full of ads for their own and other's services
I have a Samsung and I've never seen such ads.
The kind of ads they are talking there in the article would be in cheap Chinese phones in the Android world I think.
Moto phones are relatively ad free. There's a few (removable/disableable) apps on it at stock that have ads, the rest is all good.
I've been very happy with the low-end moto phones I've bought, and plan to continue with them until they inevitably get worse.
I've heard their flagships will start coming with GrapheneOS next year. Should be a step in the right direction.