Shopping around, seems like every option is doubling down on anti-user garbage... I don't trust myself to do a root or anything like that - my tech skills are juuust good enough to be painfully aware of my own dumbassery, but I'm doubting an out-of-the-box smartphone that isn't loaded with shit even exists.

Previously I've used Pixel and Galaxy, but those are both chief offenders.

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[–] 4 points 7 months ago

it also runs an onboard vpn, which has the side effect of blocking ad tracking requests.

I like the adblock VPN and the browser UI, however, in the browser itself, I was surprised to see what third-party requests are "loaded to prevent site breakage", Google and Facebook usually amongst them.

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