I found Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify on my home, yet I never even visited their websites on this phone. I never recently installed or visited sus places, I ran a full scan with Kaspersky, found nothing. I disabled “MetaAppInstall” from the settings. I have a Redmi Note 12 Pro. I did some googling and it says for Facebook that it’s because of sponsorship. Is this it? You literally can’t escape from those apps even by never looking at them because your phone will force them on you? Or is there some other reason? Edit: I can uninstall them, and I did. It’s just that they installed themselves and I don’t want them to do it again
I don’t think you’d necessarily need a new OS to be honest. Once you’re rooted, you can just use your root privileges to uninstall any system/non-system app you want using one of several available apps. As for ads, I don’t have Xiaomi but you can try these.
Xiaomi’s ROM is held together by spit and hope, screwing around in it with root access is basically guaranteed to break it sooner or later.