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“OnePlus has announced a new system that limits who can unlock the bootloader on their phones. Stating reasons such as “data security” and an enhanced “system stability” […]. OnePlus has introduced a new procedure where anyone wanting to unlock the bootloader on their devices must first fill out an online request form for “Deep Testing””.
Even if it is for one region, it is still enshitification preventing phones to have custom ROM 🤦♂️
As someone who just tried daily driving a non-unlocked phone for the first time in 10+ years, I’m interested in seeing some development in the direction of sandboxing. Not sure how stuff works in GrapheneOS for example (haven’t tried it) and haven’t delved into too much details of AOSP either, but I think it makes sense - make sure that system and sensitive apps are not possible to tamper with even if you want to, and run everything else in a separate space that you can have root access to. Would be nice, although realistically I don’t see this happening outside of some developer-focused device.
But yeah, even if I don’t want to unlock, I’d prefer having the peace of mind that I can if I decide to. Haven’t tried OnePlus so far, and this here makes is much less likely that I would in the future.