When i was considerong buying a fairphone, fairphones with e/os came up and wondered if it was a good option for privacy.
I do not like pixels, and would love nothing to do with that phone. I prefer my one plus and if i can keep that still have my privacy, that would be nice.
E/os can be put on different android phones my one plus included.
Oneplus is a bad choice since you can’t lock the bootloader if you flash a custom ROM. If you have to use it, then do it until it breaks. Any custom ROM is better than stock privacy wise.
But with unlocked bootloader there is a security issue.
at very min you want a a phone with custom ROM that can have its bootloader relocked. Oneplus won’t do it, in 2022 they explicitly made this decision. SO fuck them.