I decided to support AES with my penny, so I want to buy a phone that has 3+ years of support and is good at privacy. I was a Galaxy user with a Lineageos rom before, but I think even stock roms can be debloated.
Lemmygrad (and hex) must be the only place with pro-China folks who are also enthusiastic about privacy, so I’m asking here
I second the Pixel idea. They’re getting 5 years of OS updates and 2 more of security updates, and they’re not expensive (~250) if you buy second hand or on a sale. Plus installing GrapheneOS is very simple, they even have a web that does it for you (Chromium-only).
Other brands are either don’t like you installing your own OS or are very expensive or old.