[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] doggydog2:
Wow, i agree actually and it must have been shock to make such a jump. I had almost 20 flagships between Note3 and Note20 :D So I had to slowly adjust to the spy era where retail person is treated like piece of dumb sheeet:

- even the simplest app has user agreement (= data theft)

- even the most sensitive private app, the caller, is online, "helping" you to find places or upload your calls to check the numbers (creating a huge database of interactions)

- call recording silently rolled out, because corporations record you all of the time, please don't record calls you "little retail nobody"

- preinstalled bloatware, some of it deeply infested even in firmware, i've seen user action loggin, even tcp dumping your communication by vendor

- vendors do tricks to save battery (and not utilize the exensive RAM) but they make sure the adware have exceptions defined to run nonstop.. so they kill your innocent apps in background not "social" malware

- stealing user data became norm, and each UI interaction is being sent, the requests include your IDs, location, email already in URL.. and you have debugging, analytics, tracking, ad records.. and they 're not enough, they come up with DNS cloaking methods nowadays, or direct-to-third-party connections, soon adblockers won't be enough

- rooting became so painful that noone wants to do it anymore despite

security

advantage (security for ME is defined by being able to disinfect the spyware for example)

- tiny "improvements" like you can't set root certificate to enable some deep adblocking without root

- tiny "improvements" by Google like location is required to see you 're connected to wifi, so you give a package of unwanted permissions to apps

- as irrelevant as protection you from cookies (EU), Google protects you from "storage" access a.k.a. mostly non existing SD card, so you get a stupid dialog to confirm the folder in each app

- "Don't be evil" was removed from Google philosophy

- useful technology DLNA was silently killed because it's not "online" (instragram, facebook, tiktok) enough

- useful Google RSS reader was killed because again it's not interactive, like-able, share-able, i.e. ad-infested enough

- your payment provider will send your transactions + personal data to hundreds of companies, customer dream of cheap international payments in interconnected world totally killed, quite opposite, there are more and more third parties collecting margins (wallets)

- useful widgets, the basic feature of Android, got killed one by one, you now can't even put some weather of contacts rectangle on your screen

- the hardware features everyone liked are gone e.g. sd card, jack, notification light, instead you get slow fingerprint either in back or under display, or ugly notch on the screen

- you can not freely review apps, you need to be registered, and at some point you even needed Google+ because "lets' be social"

- exploding frequency of ads in youtube, sure you have your alternative viewer, but the Google devs make sure to change APIs like every week to disrupt them

- adblocking apps or similar apps helping YOU were banned from Market

- the "default" settings are mostly against your interests, and it takes hours to set them to reasonable choices

- but that doesn't stop Google to revert some settings back as they have modification rights, and V.I.P. privileges (something like sticky OneDrive on Windows)

- you no longer can hover with finger on screen like on Note3

- you pay hefty sum for the mobile phone like it was a desktop computer

and so on. You're welcome!