I've been configuring a new android phone for my aunt and boy, it is horrific:

- tons of preinstalled applications including wtf games, linkedin, netflix, spyonme-soft, duplicate-this-stock-functionality-but-worse, spyonme-hard and much more

- more apps that can't be uninstalled yet are clearly spyware (xiaomi cloud? mimusic?) plus standard google spyware

- gemini this gemini that, "yes please" vs "ask me later", "make your phone your wallet" with "yes please" vs "ask me later" and much more (again!)

Then I proceed to install the only application of her choosing -- whatsapp, but whatever, so I open play store (there is also a mistore:) and type 'whatsapp'

The first result is a green icon similar to 'whatsapp's, I install it, but no! it is actually "telephone" with overreaching permissions that wants to replace the standard application for calling.

Only the second result is the application with the name that exactly matches the query. Apparently 'telephone' is sponsored, but it is only very subtly hinted.

I wouldn't call it a circus - it is an animal experiment facility.