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Please write the 3 phone brands (in order please) which you think they bring the least number of third-party apps.

Notes:

  • 1- PrivacyGuides recommends Google Pixel. But it is not selling on my country. I can not bring it from other countries because it will not have warrant.

  • 2- We also don't have fair-phone and nothing-phone (i can not bring it from another country).

  • 3- we only have: general-mobile, huawei, samsung, asus, tcl, htc, xiaomi, vivo, infinix, oneplus.

  • 4- please dont recomend custom ROM. Its technically difficult for me. Also I will recommend the device to my friend (they don't have even an idead what is custom-rom)

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[–] BuckenBerry 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That depends on the model. Plenty of newer OnePlus phones use mediatech processors with little to no custom ROM support.

A fact I found after buying a new OnePlus phone without doing any research because I was in a desperate situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah I see, is bootloader unlocking etc still available? (A more techy person could still go hard on privacy implementations)

I'm using nothing myself but the op said its unavailable in their country. I also noted that now lots of ROMs come preloaded with GAPPS whereas you had to load separately in the past.

[–] BuckenBerry 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's common but phones like the 10R don't have any support for unlocking bootloaders

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ah that's fair. I think I had the 9 or maybe 7