sorry for the very late response (it’s better late than never, isn’t it?), but Xiaomi has its bootloader unlocking service active. I used it last year to unlock my phone.

Here you can get the official mi unlock program (it works on hyperos): https://en.miui.com/unlock/index.html

And here is a guide to unlock the bootloader: https://miuirom.org/updates/xiaomi-bootloader

(don’t do the usb debugging part, I don’t know if it is necessary on older devices but on every xiaomi device that I had you don’t need to enable usb debugging so mi unlock can communicate with fastboot)

edit: spacing.

edit 2: please don’t do the bootloader lock via direct fastboot command as stated in the guide, I strongly recommend that you do a clean flash of stock rom with mi flash tool, if you plan to lock the bootloader later.

If you don’t like the bloatware… unlock the bootloader and install a custom rom! Luckily Xiaomi allows you to unlock the bootloader if you have a global variant.

Oh jeez, enshittification is so fast with today’s companies…

https://support.torproject.org/tor-browser/security/tor-browser-for-android-no-trackers/

The trackers detected are:

• Glean (Mozilla telemetry service)
• Sentry

You can inspect them in App Manager if you have root, and disable the specific activities and providers from the app if you care about this.

Mullvad Browser for the win!