[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] MarkMRL:
I got this phone used for 170€, seems pretty high but it's in good conditions and still has some warranty and a bunch of crappy covers and bumpers that I don't even need. The guy paid 380€ for it.

After spending a long time on my glorious OnePlus3 on Lineage I literally forgot about bloatware, crapware, and spyware. I also had the Z3 a long time ago and I remember it was really devoid of crapware, it probably had Whatsapp and a bunch of god awful Sony apps, and that was it.

So I turned the phone on, it was pretty snappy and the screen was ok, I like how small it is, the camera is godly compared to my crappy OP3 camera, and everything was nice and I was happy until I was nagged about some bull**** from AVG claiming that "I need protection" and that "my protection is not updated". Now, antiviruses make me really angry especially on Android, it's the very definition of crapware that spies on you and server literally no purpose whatsoever as long as you have a functioning brain other than making your battery last less, so my anger level was shot up pretty high at this point, but no big deal I can uninstall right? And then I realize it's a system app that can only be disabled and not fully purged into the flames of hell where it belongs, so my anger level is reaching critical levels. When I realized this god damned piece of horse **** of a spyware is not even some full version but some idiotic crippled trial version that wants me to give it money because I'm "not protected" or some nonsense, at this point I'm actually pretty damn angry because my intelligence was insulted.

Then I scan the phone for other ****ware and realize it also has Amazon, Prime Video, Kindle, Spotify and god damned Facebook as System Apps, at this point I'm literally seething.

I can't believe this **** tbqh, WTF!

Anyway, Spotify may have some purpose to exist if you're a zoomer who only streams music and doesn't have a finely curated collection of FLACS like true connoisseurs such as myself, but it has no reason to be a system app.

Amazon is a big festering pile of ****, we all know that, and it has no reason to be a system app.

Facebook is absolute, pure cancer, like the rest of social media, but among all of those cancer social media companies, it's probably the worst (next to TikTok probably), I hate it with a passion, why does it have to be a system app, FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES IT HAVE TO BE A SYSTEM APP!

Now It's all coming back to me, when I had the Sony Z3 it had some of this **** (not as much as this one though), and I couldn't remove it because unlocking the bootloader killed a bunch of sony apps and the camera, and it appears to be the same on this one.

I refuse to use a phone that comes with this **** preinstalled, I can barely tolerate Google apps (my OP3 is fully degoogled and I like it that way), but ******* trial AVG as a system app and Facebook? Lolnope, Mr. Sony, Mr. AVG, Mr. Bezos, and Mr. Zuckerberg especially, please **** right off, DIAF and take your spyware with you. I don't want your **** on my phone, I don't even want to hear or see a picture of your disgusting spyware on my phone. The only thing worse than this preinstalled garbage is that if I get Corona from touching someone else's phone.

God damn it I'm honestly angry right now, I am going to try for a couple of hours to figure out if I can root it without a million annoyances (and some way to lock internet access to apps, because I actually give half a **** about my privacy and I don't need my keyboard and my photo album to go online) , if I can't, the phone is going back on ebay. Hopefully I won't lose too much money. Also the navbar annoys the hell out of me, why does it have to be so big, it wasn't so big on the Z3.