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I have no issue buying from shady vendors.

Typically they load the drive will all kinds of stuff, but the first thing I do is format the drive and load the OS myself. Solved.

Note that this is very different from the 'malware loaded in the factory' story. These are legitimate PCs that are sold without operating system (or with some fig-leaf OS like PC DOS or Linux), where the retail shop loads Windows and apps. That's the typical scenario. (In Asia)