The Indian division of the realme brand has announced the introduction of personalized ad units in the ColorOS 6 shell. The company has not clarified which markets the ads will be displayed on, but shared a way to disable it.
In order to continue to please you with surprises and maintain a sustainable business model, we have introduced a system of commercialized content recommendations in the OS, – press service of realme
Advertisements will be displayed on the Phone Manager application and on the Security Check page after installing new applications.
It is possible to turn off recommendations with regular tools:
- Go to Settings> Advanced Settings> Get Recommendations
- Disable the “Receive recommendations” switch

At the presentation of the realme 3 smartphone in March 2019, the company troll Xiaomi, adding to the slide with a comparison with Redmi Note 7 the signature “No ads in the interface”. Xiaomi shows ads in the MIUI shell, but added a switch for it.
Source: realme