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grapheneos on a pixel
Don't give money to google!
Even second hand purchasing encourages people to buy new pixel phones cause they know it sells well in the used market.
When I bought my Pixel I saw it like in the meme: "I'm gonna pay you 460 bucks to fuck off". I could have waited until Motorola releases their GrapheneOS phones, but mine was overdue for an upgrade, it was reeeeally slow.
I wouldn't be surprised if they lost money on the hardware. Remove their software and the revenue stream is severed from day one.
And instead buy a normal phone which Google gets all the data from anyway? I'd rather drive the used market for pixels up slightly than have people get any other phone which hands Google money indirectly. I can't imagine the small bump in prices in the used market even matters to Google in new phone sales
Buy a second hand Pixel phone. Google gets exactly nothing from me.
Only if you buy online, they've no way to track in-store and in-person secondhand purchases