The cancer of the domestic operating system, "guess you like" roll out of the phone

Witty cat

2024-05-21 16:58Published in Chongqing science and technology creators

Even a brand new 512GB mobile phone often uses up more than 30GB out of thin air after activation, in addition to the necessary software that comes with the system, the phone is also full of a large number of application recommendations, selected services......

Yes, I believe that when you use your mobile phone, the most troubled place is that there are a lot of "guess what you like" in the system, in fact, the mobile phone is promoted in the name of recommendation, which greatly affects the normal use experience. Not only does it secretly occupy our storage space, but it also steals traffic.

It is no exaggeration to say that "guess you like" is simply a cancer in the system, my own mobile phone, what application do I want to install, what information I want to see, I can't just search for it?

To this end, I have specially prepared Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, OPPO, and vivo, the five highest-selling brand models in China, to see how many annoying system-level promotion functions there are in their systems.

System under test (upgraded to the latest version and factory reset):

Huawei: HarmonyOS 4.2.0

荣耀：MagicOS 8.0.0

小米：HyperOS 1.0.13

OPPO：ColorOS 14.0.0

Vivo:OriginOS 4.0

Draw snake to add to the lock screen wallpaper

vivo reading picture lock screen

Before you even get to the desktop, you're bombarded with the first round of ads. In order to attract users, mobile phone manufacturers have made a lot of eye-catching wallpapers, most of which use beautiful women and seductive keywords to attract clicks, if users ignore it, it is no problem to go directly to the desktop, but if they are not paying attention (or are attracted), they will receive a large number of advertisements after clicking.

These five systems,Vivo's promotion is relatively straightforward,The previous example,It comes from vivo mobile phone,The official named it the picture lock screen,It's also to guess what picture you like,And then recommend related articles for you to read。 After clicking, you can see the promotion links of various software, and then there are some slightly rubbing articles, which are simply unsightly.

Xiaomi/OPPO's lock screen pictorial and music space

Similar to Xiaomi and OPPO,There's nothing wrong with the lock screen itself,But if you swipe left or right,It will expand the lock screen pictorial (Xiaomi)、Lehua space,Here are not only selected wallpapers,There are also App recommendations and related information that can be seen everywhere,Many of them are intercepted from a certain keyword,In fact, the content has nothing to do with the article。

OPPO also provides an OG treasure hunt function here, in fact, it is to complete the task of installing or booking the App, or pay in the game, and then exchange for the key to win the treasure, in fact, it is a blind box, which provides tablets, Switch game consoles, Bluetooth headsets and other prizes - as for whether you can win the lottery, it depends on your luck, I didn't try anyway.

Huawei also has a magazine lock screen function, but the recommended content is quite healthy and will not be offensive, but there will also be a promotion link for a small game or short video App; In this link, Glory is relatively restrained, only providing wallpaper-related scenic spot introductions, star information, etc., without additional promotion, which is not bad.

There is no minimum limit for app promotion

Obviously, app promotion is the main source of income in major systems, so what is the difference in each application market?

Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo app marketing

First of all, almost no brand of mobile phone will pop up an app ad before entering the app market, although it is not long and can be skipped, but it still greatly affects the user experience. Xiaomi mobile phones will also pop up after this"Welcome back"Interface,Here is a recommendation of the hottest apps of the week、Carefully selected for you,These"Guess you like"App are some recommended regular customers,Such asXX novel、XX speed version、XX video, etc.,These familiar apps,If you need to, it must have been ordered a long time ago,For me, it must be redundant promotion。

I also tested direct search apps, such as the national app WeChat, and only Honor gave the correct result at the top of the search results, and the others all gave promotion links to third-party apps.

However,Even if it's glory,There are a large number of applications in the search results to promote,Each packaged as"You may still like","Everyone is searching",The apps recommended here have almost nothing to do with the results of my search,Among them, there are many pornography-related social applications that have been named many times by relevant departments,It is recommended that you download it with caution。

vivo mobile phone "no download and installation" function

By the way, I also found that in the application market of vivo mobile phones, the "free download and installation" function will be turned on by default, which is actually to estimate the download behavior preference, and install it directly when needed, this function is also "guess what you like".

But I can't see what App I downloaded at all.,Is it what I want.,Or will I use these apps in the future.,When I want to download it in the future,Does it really help me save time?,I can't judge,But from my use in the past few days,Tested more than 20 commonly used apps,All need to be re-downloaded,I haven't encountered a situation where an uninstalled App can be used before,This download-free installation occupies more than 1GB of my space in vain,What App is cached,It's unknown。

There is another aspect of app promotion that affects the user experience, that is, pre-installed app promotion. Among the five major operating systems,Huawei,The most third-party pre-installed applications are Huawei,But the others are not much better,All around 20,Counting the manufacturer's own applications,The same is Huawei's majority,Many communities、Education、Membership and other related functions are not very useful,You can delete it yourself according to your needs。

Folder promotion for Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo

What's even more annoying is actually folder promotion. All of them offer a "guess what you like" (with slightly different names) feature, and there are many third-party app download links here.

If you want to talk about the difference, it is Huawei、OPPO disguises the icon of the promoted app as a normal App,Click to download,vivo is at the bottom of the page with "Today's recommendation" and"Guess you like"Recommended"Recommended,As for honor and Xiaomi,It's both......

If you want to turn off this kind of recommendation, vivo is relatively the easiest, just click the slider at the bottom; Huawei, Honor, and OPPO need to click the gear or exclamation mark to close in the pop-up interface; Xiaomi mobile phones are hidden deeply, you need to click on the folder name, and then click the slider to turn off "Today's Recommendation", there are not many operation steps, but if you don't tell you, who would have thought that this method would be this?

Negative screens, browsers, and other ......

Not only these,There are a lot of "guess you like" in the mobile phone system,For example, we have previously measured the promotion of domestic browsers for you,List a lot of places that affect the experience,Not only that,Negative screen is also one of the hardest hit areas of software promotion。

At first, the negative screen was only to provide a quick entrance to some in-app functions, such as taking notes, watching the weather, etc., and now, it has also become a gathering place for App promotion and various edge information.

Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO's negative screen

According to our measurements,Huawei、Glory、OPPO、vivoThe negative screen can be directly swiped up to open the information page,Among them, glory and vivo also have psoriasis-like patch promotion,Disguised as normal information or video,If you accidentally click on it, you will jump to install。

OPPO is more straightforward, divided into specialized"Popular apps", you can directly press and hold to select"Don't like the service" to close, it won't be too troublesome. Xiaomi, who has been complained about a lot of advertisements, has not done much promotion on the negative screen, and there is not even information, which is quite conscientious.

In general, there are more promotional content in the domestic mobile phone system, which is also one of the important incomes of manufacturers, and there are very few people like Meizu who dare to launch the "three-zero system" - unfortunately it has not been able to stick to it. "You may also like" will definitely stay in the user's mobile phone for a long time, it is recommended to check the relevant tutorials when you have time, turn them all off, and give yourself a refreshing experience.

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