There is an old news, I guess my friends all know: Meizu's "three zero system" overturned.
Due to the behavior of the Meizu 18/18 Pro system in pushing advertisements to users, it was fined 25,000 yuan by the Zhuhai Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau.
Although Meizu quickly carried out rectification, but u1s1, the rotten ads in the mobile phone are really special! other! bother!
In fact, manufacturers through pre-installed software, built-in advertising to create revenue to balance their own financial revenue. To put it simply, I want to make more money, which is nothing wrong with itself.
It's just that many people have the impression that the vast majority of manufacturers are not as good as Meizu's attitude in this regard before. Advertising has always been allowed to develop at will, in contrast, at least Flyme is willing to line up with ads a few times... Although I won't see it anymore.
This is all 2022, I would like to know how far the major manufacturers' mobile phone OS systems have done in terms of using advertising to lower the experience?
I looked for a few phones: Huawei P40 Pro+, OPPO K9 Pro, iQOO 8 Pro, and Xiaomi Mi 10 Extreme Edition to see how they actually looked (excluding ads in third-party apps).
Is it a collective mess? Or is there a wave of control in moderation?
Let's take a look at Huawei's performance, HarmonyOS 2.0 version with Huawei P40 Pro+.
To be honest, as an Apple user, I don't have any bias against Android machines. But when I reactivate the phone... Still surprised by dozens of pre-installed software.
This also includes more than a dozen "semi-pre-installed" apps in the "Hot Recommendations". After clicking, a series of small installation cards will pop up, and if you want to delete, you need to press and hold like a regular app to choose to delete.
"Boutique application" click on the following software push ads, but the very magical thing is: obviously there are already Kuaishou Douyin software, why do you still recommend me to download Kuaishou / Douyin Express Edition? And it's really annoying to pop up the download window with a tap.
Opening "Weather" looks good at first, but there is no trace of advertising. Except for the fact that there is a push about the solar terms or weather conditions at the bottom from time to time, but I think this thing should not be considered an advertisement, right?
The problem is that by clicking on the line "See more weather", the new world of partners has opened...
Not only did the top ads appear, but a small window also appeared on the right side of the screen, and after clicking into it, it was the traditional arts that were forwarded by various family elders in the WeChat group.
And the close button in the upper right corner is very small, and it is really normal to mistakenly operate and jump into the third-party interface (I accidentally opened the vibrato). Even if you turn off the advertising window, just switch the interface and it will come again...
The next swipe is also a full screen of advertisements, what kind of teeth, waterproof leaks, identification of jadeite and various headline party infographics. And this part of the advertisement is completely irrepressible.
The application "wallet" is also the hardest hit area for advertising. However, unlike other sections, the ads in it are stained with a strong color of money: either various consumption and offers, or various lending platforms display.
Want to close these ads, Hongmeng did not directly give you an entrance, in the wallet App search ads push, out of a series of tutorials that tell you how to close.
According to the tutorial, I closed the advertising information about finance on the wallet homepage, and then looked for half a day to find a "wallet expansion service" switch through the "about" at the bottom.
Let's say that this switch is not placed in the setting menu, but comes a "about"... You didn't say it was about advertising Ah Huawei!
I tried looking for weather jumps and the overall ad switch buttons of the system, but I could only search for some notification pushes and personalized recommendation services, and when I closed them, I could only talk more than nothing.
So what is the official version of ColorOS 11.3 based on Android 11?
On this OPPO K9 Pro we can see the same similar pre-installed third-party software, I counted 18 models, a little less than Hongmeng's pre-installed + semi-pre-installed, but also very limited.
Even the interface has not yet loaded out, and the small pop-up window on the right side of the advertisement is ready...
It turns out that in addition to advertising, the most terrifying browser that Comes with ColorOS is actually the headline party, which is much more frightening than the Hongmeng just seen.
For example: Li Guyi's "daughter" was exposed, and then the cover was Zhang Ye teacher... The only thing I can accept for this kind of title party is to look at it at least to know that it is based on facts... he tui～
Of course, "wallets" are still a hub for financial lending advertising, and the vast majority of mobile phones are like this. But the point I have to say is that ColorOS' ad-turn-off steps are really too! complicated! trifling! finish!
It separates every section that may have ads, and cannot be closed with one click, but can only be manually operated one by one (and at the same time, it must be confirmed twice...
In fact, OPPO can be completely reversed: the advertising module can be closed with one click, and then choose whether to open it according to personal use needs. This can provide advertising closure services without changing the original intention of the green factory, why not do it?
The green factory (OPPO) is like this, and its good brother blue factory (vivo) is a performance?
Since I don't have Vivo's latest S12 on hand, I can only take out the iQOO 8 Pro to see, but it is all updated OriginOS is not harmful.
It looks like the previous two mobile PHONE OS, they now dare not be particularly cruel to the ads in the "weather" section, and they are more "euphemistic".
After sliding, there is a video interface for weather forecasts, and after clicking into it, you can see the intelligent recommendation and advertising push of the short video.
It's just that I don't quite understand, how is the weather forecast and the secret of keeping the stool flowing "related to the video"?
The system comes pre-installed with third-party software with almost 20 different applications (the little blue dot is because it will require me to update as soon as it comes up, and then I will click all the updates by hand... ）。
However, when you click on the application collection, there is no so-called "boutique recommendation" below, at least you will not inexplicably download any ghost things.
There is no ad position top in the store search, and OriginOS and ColorOS do not have too many bells and whistles, and the search interface I personally think is still relatively simple.
But the wallet of the iQOO 8 Pro has a not-so-good setting: the entrance to the bus card or access control card is not as prominent as expected, on the contrary, the most conspicuous is the insurance and loan ads...
This seems to me to be a bit of an inversion of the meaning of the horse, is your vivo family's product manager open the wallet mainly to buy insurance and engage in loans?
Then on the path operation of closing the advertisement, it can only be said that the feeling of the two brothers at this time is really obvious. If you accidentally touch "Turn on all"... Why don't you need a second confirmation at this time?!
In the ranks of domestic OS, many people have carried the black cauldron of today's advertising flood on Xiaomi's body, but to be honest, this has not wronged Xiaomi.
After all, they took the lead in creating this new model of lowering the price on mobile phones to improve cost performance, and then making money through system advertising.
Although we enjoy the convenience of technology hardware, it also robs the user of the perfect experience.
"Let you enjoy it sooner rather than later, but I don't say let you enjoy it completely... 」
However, since Xiaomi launched the "ad filtering" function in the system, although the ads are still as many as ever, it seems to give users a choice.
Then we will use the Xiaomi Mi 10 Extreme Edition and MIUI 12.5 Stable Edition to see what its actual condition is compared to the others.
Don't ask what didn't update MIUI 13, because I didn't receive an official push here...
Open The Xiaomi App Store, unlike the previous ones, is that it has the situation of the top of the advertising position, and occasionally there will be some very "deliberate" "serious" software push.
Specific to the application, I experienced the roughness of MIUI advertising, and sometimes I couldn't even find that the app I searched for had a special relationship with the subsequent software.