You can escape from them by rooting your phone and installing a different OS. If you don't do that, you're at the whim of Xiaomi and its corporate deals.
Installing another OS is not without risk and requires some technical skills though.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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what would you reccomend that has a similar enough look to MIUI? I really like the style but goddamn having ads in the file explorer is too much. I ran away from that by using adguard but if your phone will install apps for you...
Dude, redmi itself is a huge spyware device. And you are worried about Amazon and Netflix ?
Yup, if your phone region is set to India, Redmi phones start installing lot of useless apps. I used some universal Android debloater on GitHub to remove all the spyware apps. Even disabled miui update, since it is the main reason these apps are installed.
Assuming Android? Had a similar issue with different apps. Turned out to be something called "Mobile Services" doing this. Some ads also used it to sideload apps. Found an article about this class of software and it's apparently common on phones. Key was to look at the package names (I used the Package Names app). In my case, com.dti.tracfone. disabled THAT app and no more problem.
Reference: http://telstramobileloop.com/what-is-mobile-services-manager/
seems like in my case it was called carrier services
I was able to uninstall all those preinstalled apps with my Redmi note 10, maybe something changed with the newer models.
I uninstalled them, the problem is that they installed themselves