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That seems like wild disregard. Reminds me of a former friend who would chuck trash out the window with disregard and acted like the world was his personal dump. He thought he was super cool for not caring about anything, and eventually I stopped hanging out with him because it was gross. But idk, he could have been trying to get a ruse out of you or maybe he was just brought up that way.

Thanks for explaining, I didn't know it was such a mess.

This also explains why I had so many problems with calling when I tried to use unlocked flip phones and dumb phones in years past. There were always issues with my voice not coming through, it being to quiet, or missing calls altogether. After that I ditched them for a Pixel, only to have the mic in it die at 6 months. I'm legitimately cursed with calling issues.

Thats better, it must have been some sort of equivalent exchange deal. Was it vendor locked?

In America I wanted to use an old moto g5, since it had 4g LTE and was all I needed. Every version of android between 7-14 is available for it through custom ROMs, and some people are still releasing security updates. But it turned out ATT and others "Whitelisted" it from their networks for being too old. Apparently when the switchover happened ATT sent everyone with a whitelisted phone a cheapo garbage phone as consolation, and nudged them to buy a new phone. Super scummy behavior.

Another day, more Mozilla FUD. I just saw the switched on Linux guy posted some too. They arent a perfect company, but lets not pretend they're exactly like google or a mini google. It feels almost coordinated to get you to feel like all companies are compromised, so you should just use the popular thing and forget about privacy and security.