I finally ditched my Huawei phone after I looked the traffic it was sending. I’d blocked it using pihole from contacting China, which it was doing every few minutes. I had to have a Huawei account (again, lots of chat back to China) to use lots of the features as well.
It then fell back to trying to contact some .ru sites, at which point I thought I’d pick a different manufacturer.
Outside, when it was just using the sim in the normal way, it was outside the pihole too, so all that China and Russia chat was happening all the time, whatever it was sending.
Just made me uncomfortable, though not surprised.
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