A family member of mine has one of these. Of course, being a good grandson, I tell him to use it for phone calls only and never sign into anything. Soon after setting it up he started complaining that it was showing him ads; I was confused because he had barely touched it but turns out the phone has a hidden carrier “app updater” (read: remote installer) that had silently downloaded several adware packages to his device. It is outrageous that we push these devices to older, frequently technically illiterate people. There has to be a better system behind this than “we gave them a free phone, who cares if it’s actively unsafe to actually use”.