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And based on recent discoveries it sounds like Xiaomi should be trusted less than others.

As stupid as it might sound, I do trust Pixel phones, and an hypothetical iPhone running a different OS, the most of all alternatives. If one want's a smartphone, if not just take a 20+ year old dumb phone. Or BlackBerry.

Good luck getting that 20 year old phone to connect to any modern wireless network. I don't think anyone is running a 2G network anymore.

I totally forgot that even 3G is going to be phased out.

Not only firmware. Custom ROMs actually have to use binary blobs in kernelspace and userspace as well, in order to be able to use the hardware.

>"its just a question of which you trust less than the others."

Simple. I do not "trust less". I just do not trust. My phone is a phone. No Internet activity. I spend enough time in front of my desktop, dragging another computer anywhere I go is the last thing on my mind.