Ok it worked fine, don’t see ads in the MIUI apps for now. But there’s still ads in the settings! Xiaomi must have thrown another ad injecting app somewhere (oddly enough, ads in settings are only on the installed apps page)

Which rom are you using?

Xiaomi is an Internet company not a smartphone company. They sell smartphone as a secondary product their primary source of income is miui. That’s the reason they can sell phones at cheap prices

My first xiaomi was a shot in the dark. I never regretted, I’ve became a fan of both xiaomi and miui. They give good support. I don’t like ads but I’m not annoyed by them. Never even noticed.

Why I always recommend the A1 and A2 to guys. The android one is great

Laugh in Resurrection Remix

I bought the A1, at least they can’t do it there unless they want to have Google’s wrath upon them.

I mean amazon used to sell tablets with ads which were subsidized. People keep talking about the 300$ phone, how do you think they can reach amazing prices like that.

Amazon tell you up front and you can pay the difference to remove them. I assume this isn’t the case with Xaiomi?

This shouldn’t require a law. People just need to quit buying products that do this and they’ll learn what is acceptable and what’s not.

Miui 9.5 global ROM, MI 8 user here. No ads in my settings.

By having the right hardware?

What would Google do in theory?

Google charge a massive premium to make profit on their devices – Xiaomi do not.

i removed over 50 apps from my poco through adb. now it is a different phone altogether.

They could stop them from using their services.
Android One is a quality mark by Google.
If they abuse it, Google could stop all xiaomi phones from using Google services.
Already happened to another brand

Laugh in bootloop. Can’t see ads if I can’t use the phone 😎😎😎

Indeed. And even better, Xiaomi.eu ROMs do not trigger ARB4, so you can flash em happily like you’d flash a custom AOSP or LOS ROM.

Consumer ignorance isn’t a valid excuse. don’t buy the cheapest possible product lol. If you’re buying something it’s your responsibility to know what your buying. If it has ads it sucks but you can find out if you research

And that reason is they don’t have warehouses, not this crap.

The real winner here.

And Google sells your data to advertised and analytics companies.

I use blokada to cut down on those… Somedays it doesn’t work.

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I thought they allowed you to change roms or was I wrong?

You can spend a little more to not have them

Custom Rom SLPT

Xiaomi was doing that too? I thought it was just Huawei.

Laughs on EFIDroid

Which is weirdly why I am not creeped out about Google knowing everything about me. If it stays internal to Google (and doesn’t get hacked), then the services I get are probably improved with little chance that anyone knows this information about me except Google and its software.

I have MIUI 10 Global 8.9.13 Beta on my Mi 6 and **don’t** have these ads anywhere in settings or any app that I use (I don’t use most of the built-in Mi apps though). Maybe it’s regional? Or a vendor ROM?

They do, not sure what he’s talking about. You have to wait 15 days to unlock it though. This was to stop resellers from rooting it and loading malware on it before reselling it.

NSA already has it

They don’t even do that. They rent out abstractions.

Also Facebook.

Laughs on Mars. Got no signal here.

oooooooooooooooooooo. Is it Italian or Russian?

In the words of other people, referring to really bad phone trends,
“You get used to it.”
“It’s not that bad.”
And that’s why they can get away with it.

Trash

Or like, Windows.
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Samsung’s stock voicemail app has ads and asks everyone if you want to upgrade to premium.

Is this a legitimate problem? I haven’t heard any other manufacturer doing this.

I mean, yeah… But at some point enough is enough. It’s a lot to ask of *everyone* to do full research on every product they buy. Googling really is a skill, simple as it seems to us.

Now, it *could* be a requirement to *clearly* disclose on the packaging and product descriptions that ads are included. Amazon makes it very clear on their discounted devices that that you will be fed ads, and that should be the base regulation for all manufacturers.

This isn’t a stock rom, wipe your phone now and flash an official update. Highly suspect a reseller or other middleman to be doing this.

Well the ad-free version is basically any other android phone but yes, I see what you mean.

Your comment doesn’t mean anything because you completely ignore what the phone even gives. The point is that it has similar specs to Galaxy phones, which are $800+. Obviously, there are 100$ phones too, but that’s like saying a 1000$ Ferrari is overpriced because you can buy a 500$ shit car from craiglist.

Stop buying their shit. That’ll xiao them.

ok.
I use Custom ROM.

That was Huawei

Its not shady vendor! I downloaded official miui 10 yesterday and it have ads in they apps.

I’ve never seen an ad in MIUI.

The problem with Xiaomi phones is that many people import them from 3rd party Chinese reseller which install malware, when you get a phone from a 3rd party reseller in China, always wipe and reflash… Never use it as received.

That’s a defiant reason to stay away from xiaomi tbh.

Cite numbers to back up your claim or gtfo.

Thought it was a sub.
/r/subsyoufellfor

It really isn’t that bad. Just text, it isn’t even flashy. I know this might get downvoted but I love my Xiaomi, I paid for it 1/3 the price my last phone costed and it’s just as good. I never saw those ads but I wouldn’t mind them.

Ok maybe I’m just a dumbass but what would prevent the seller from just waiting 15 days? If they’re installing malware to make profit why just not keep the phone for 15 days?