You can use adb to remove this kind of crap without having to root the device, can't you?
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.spam.bloatware pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.spam.bloatwareSeriously, this shit is inexcusable.
I personally think hackers have a moral responsibility to make fixes like this more accessible to the average person. Tech corporations have made it clear they have no qualms about attacking their users in increasingly creative ways, and it's up to us to reclaim control over the devices which, in an ethical sense, are rightfully ours.
If you do it without --user 0 it will actually uninstall it, but this only works for non-system apps and most manufacturers mark all their crap/spyware as system of course. Sigh...
In this case, the offending APK ID is "com.tblenovo.lenovotips".
And I am pissed off that I had to learn that to fix a device that I own.