On rooted phone you can use modules like HMA-OSS, ReZygisk, PIF and other tweaks depending on your root method and it can be easily bypassed, I managed to bypass that on my Magisk rooted Pixel.

Can someone tell me whats wrong with Quad9? I’ve never used or heard of that.

Once my current subscription expires, I will never buy their vpn and switch to another provider.

Unfortunately it’s so hard to find good TG client recently. I’ve been using Nekogram too and it’s been my favourite client aswell until someone found, that developers embedded hidden Java script that extracted phone number from your accounts, that you were logged into and sent them to OSINT bot. Also I can’t recall Nekogram ever being on F-Droid, you must’ve been thinking about Nekogram X which is gone for a long time.

There’s also AyuGram (quite popular TOS breaking TG client), which last commit on their GitHub page was like 4 years ago (if Nekogram extracted your phone number then one can only think what kind of shit AyuGram is extracting/doing on your phone😂)

I think the safest option would probably be “Fork Client”, or if you dont mind having less features Telegram FOSS. What I think I will do is either having Forkgram Classic or Fork Client or Telegram FOSS with some LSPosed modules that add some functionalities like speed boost or saving restricted content etc.

Working fine for me

There wasnt any 9 for sale so I bought 9a instead few days ago, because Samsung removed the option to unlock bootloader in OneUI 8.0, but so far it’s going fine.

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AUR malware

Really, something like this ever happened lol?

To add to what you said, I would like to add that there is a great app on F-Droid that centralizes way to see all devices and which ROMs/custom recoveries a particular device support, XDA thread for specific device, download links to specific ROM for specific device etc, so it saves you a lot of time.

Does it matter where will I buy my Pixel phone from? Where did you buy yours? If I will buy any Google Pixel model, I want to be sure its bootloader can be unlocked and I won’t get any “surprise” after the purchase.

I’m thinking about buying Google Pixel 5 or Google Pixel 7 Pro (or maybe better ones), because these models from what I’ve seen have the support for highest amount of custom ROMs and Google Pixel 5 supports TWRP.