Last I checked, most didn’t even ship with the Play store. Outside of smartphones, and , feature phones in particular, which are all wrapped-up-in/drowning-in mobile provider slop, embedded/closed-source blobs and tracking anyways, there’s little to worry about.

That said, I’ve probably bought my last Samsung phone, what with the SMS messenger on a three-year-old phone constantly reminding me its about to sunset/EoL, and recommending I switch to Google SMS … 🙄 … so yeah, at this point I’ve come full circle, switched to Google Voice, then Hangouts, then back to Samsung’s built-in SMS app when those shut-down or became effectively useless to me(at least for SMS…). I mean, I’ve also had other phone brands, and facebook MessengerWithSMS, but…

… hey, that reminds me, back in December, facebook forced me to encrypt my private chats, and threw a PIN at me which I somehow lost(in spite of compulsively saving every such thing in bitwarden), so in March when I had to reinstall the app poof to over two months of messages, in chats I’ve had going over ten years. Then, over the last few days, its tried to convince me that I enabled “disappearing messages”(NOPE!), again, in chats I’ve had going with my wife and kids and others for over ten years. I’m basically done with this shit, ya feel me?