If you don’t like the bloatware… unlock the bootloader and install a custom rom! Luckily Xiaomi allows you to unlock the bootloader if you have a global variant.

Oh jeez, enshittification is so fast with today’s companies…

And what about Xenia?

Or better yet, use tiktok in your web browser. It has far fewer permissions and access to your system because of the browser sandbox and how the web is built.

That’s why companies constantly push users to download the app while using the web app, because they can track users more effectively (Android’s sandbox is shit and allows apps to fingerprint users very easily).

Shouldn’t this post have a NSFW flag? Because of the torture…

I like this community but mods truly don’t do anything about enforcing nsfw flags.

https://support.torproject.org/tor-browser/security/tor-browser-for-android-no-trackers/

The trackers detected are:

• Glean (Mozilla telemetry service)
• Sentry

You can inspect them in App Manager if you have root, and disable the specific activities and providers from the app if you care about this.

If you cannot unlock the bootloader, it’s not truly your phone, and Honor has a tendency to block bootloader unlocking

Mullvad Browser for the win!