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Verizon let me root my 2018 phone and stop installing candycrush on it you fucking pieces of shit!!!!
Verizon will let you transfer the phone to a different carrier after like 3 months of owning the phone.
If you have any intent to play with Android OS variants or the stock OS, don't buy Verizon devices. Ever. They will not give you the decryption key or unlock key.
Apple, Google, Samsung and Motorola all sell devices on their websites as full price or up to 36 month financing. You can get them carrier unlocked. Motorola and Google offer bootloader unlocking should you want to.
No, they will give me root access to the devices that I own. Or they will cease operations on this planet.
Luigi, is that you?
Are you able to buy unlocked directly from Google? I typically avoid the carrier when I can.
Buy an unlocked one from box box stores. Bought mine from best buy. Immediately threw GrapheneOS on it. Coming from a locked down Samsung s9 that I couldn't root to an degoogled android experience I didn't even have to root is fucking awesome!