> I heard that Chinese phones are similar.

My Xiaomi has no adverts.

But then the Samsung S22 I had before didn't have adverts. Certainly didn't come with McAfee.

> But Samsung phones are full of ads for their own and other's services

I have a Samsung and I've never seen such ads.

The kind of ads they are talking there in the article would be in cheap Chinese phones in the Android world I think.

Moto phones are relatively ad free. There's a few (removable/disableable) apps on it at stock that have ads, the rest is all good.