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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

ASUS did this recently & lost a lawsuit in the UK for lying to customers to say unlock servers were only temporarily down for a couple months (lol)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Interesting. I hadn't heard about this. I got this response from Xiaomi earlier today after complaining they mis-sold me a phone as their unique selling point was the ability to unlock the bootloader.

"We hope you could understand, that such an operation will disable some of the built-in security features of the system, and those security features are part of what keeps the operating system safe and your data secure from exposure or corruption. And this misuse will void your phone's warranty and it may render your phone useless depending on the security measures in place on your phone."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Glad I didn't buy a zenfone, looked like a great option but that sucks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had it in my cart & went to double-check nothing changed about unlocking… happy I took a step back

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is wretched that you have to maintain constant vigilance on this bullshit, though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Remember when phones just came unlocked out of the box? You could just flash whatever you wanted on day 1 and without any data loss