In addition to this, many products come preinstalled as bloatware. McAfee products (amongst a hoard of other programs) have come preinstalled on Windows laptops I've purchased from Dell and Lenovo.

The "Fresh Start" feature in newer builds of Windows 10 (1709-onwards if I'm not mistaken) will automatically remove these kinds of applications preinstalled on new systems.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10s...

Excellent feature. It's important to note that it's a good idea to have a copy of all of your devices' drivers before using it.

Excellent feature in itself, but also a cludge around a broken economic system. OEMs shouldn't be prioritizing their profits at the expense of the users their business exists for.

Then it's not your computer. What I meant is "the owner of the computer installs (or uninstalls) mcafee at will".