I invite you, respectfully, to take a moment and consider how many average people would even begin to comprehend anything that you suggested.

Android's "free" market comes with the freedom to be bombarded by ads. As much as i used to like that, i now recommend only apple phone and computers to normal people. The average person has no idea what lineageOS is, forget about knowing how to install it.

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Dylan16807 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Personally I did none of that on my android (except set up firefox with ublock), and I get very few ads and they're easily stopped.

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palata a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The average person has no idea what lineageOS is

The beauty of it is that the average person can buy a LineageOS-enabled system without having to know it's not "normal Android". Look at /e/OS for instance, and hopefully soon GrapheneOS will come preinstalled on some Motorolas.

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brewdad a day ago | parent [-]

And they will quickly return it when they realize their banking app doesn’t work and they can’t stream that sports package they subscribed to.

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duskdozer 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Why don't they work? Google lock-in.

	▲	palata 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Actually they don't work because those apps suck. Typically the banks are responsible for preventing their own apps from working there. Because they don't care or because they follow some bullshit security-theatre policies, or because they just don't understand security, I don't know. It's not Google that adds the code that makes your banking app fail: it's the goddamn bank itself. But I agree with your point that the reason it sucks is not the AOSP-based system, and it's sad to blame the system when it's the app (or many times just Google) that is to blame.

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mitxela a day ago | parent | prev [-]

And AT&T shouldn't allow you to connect other phones, or modems at all. You should only be able to get a phone by renting it monthly from AT&T - everything else should be illegal.