I am thinking about buying a fairphone. Is it less of a privacy nightmare than your typical Android phone?

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    1 year ago

    With fairphone at least rooting does, don`t know about flashing tho.

    Source for that?

    You must gain root privileges in order to flash anything; that’s what the oem unlock is for.

    Whatever you flash has full access anyways.

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        1 year ago

        That reads pretty clear to me. If you use root privileges to cause damage to your phone, that’s the same as using a hammer to cause damage to your phone and obviously not covered by warranty. As long as you don’t damage your phone with root privileges (pretty hard to do IME), you should be covered by warranty.