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Looking at you Verizon
(lemmy.world)
A friendly reminder that isps do NOT care about you or your digital rights. Always best to buy directly from the OEM rather than from the telecommunications (unless you can't afford it). Do proper research before buying a phone!
Buy a phone not tied to a carrier
That does not mean you will be able to unlock the boot loader. Unlocked carrier doesn't mean unlockecable boot loader. A lot of manufactures don't give you access to unlock it. US variants of Samsung phones are one example.
https://xdaforums.com/t/is-there-literally-no-way-to-unlock-the-bootloader-on-the-us-edition.4613667/
And on many phones, even if you can unlock the boot loader, there is a big chance that you will not have support by any major roms. There are only a handful of phone manufacturers that have easily unlockable boot loaders and are well supported by roms. Google, OnePlus, Motorola, and Huawei are the major ones that have good support because they make the boot loader unlocking easy.
I agree but you can always just not buy as Samsung as those devices are trash anyway.
You obviously didn't understand this as you were talking about carrier locks and not boot loader locks.