This link about Glance made me think about this.
Majority of folks here might not be aware of this company. Their software usually ships on low end phones mainly in the Indian/South Asian market. They do seemed to have pivoted to the US as well but I am not sure if overseas models also see this scourge. As of right now, if one’s phone has this, they will basically see a new glorified wallpaper with news/text each time they unlock their phone. And if you read the article, they wish to go even furthur. It can technically be switched off though often it’s buried deeper than Dante’ s last layer of hell.
Do overseas(read:other Asian markets/European/American and so on) also have any local equivalent to this scourge from my country? Are ads plastered on lock screens on entry level phones common anywhere else in the Android world?
I think it’s Xiaomi. Either case, that brand does put lots of useless stuff. Other Chinese OEMs do it too. Realme puts obnoxious junk even on its high end GT7 series.
Yeah i have also seen them. Realme xiaomi and other chines devices are full of bloat. I mean bloat that are actual trash. Weird app stores, weird browsers and weird shit that claims to be antivirus that scans everything. I bet not a single person uses them. I know a guy who has a vivo device. This one went further they even don’t let you use adb to uninstall since shit apps. Oh yeah I forgot notification ad