Comment by ysnp

All mobile computing and connectivity hardware is unverifiable in reality and by design. It's not some property exclusive to Google Pixels.

Their business model also does not involve selling data afaik, it's selling access to their adspaces [1] all over the internet including the ability to target people (based on information Google jealously hoard). They stand to lose just as much as most other OEMs if they did suspicious things in hardware just like Apple, Samsung etc.

If you're serious about security you will avoid using OEMs that have unfortunate patch gaps which leave device owners at the mercy to *known vulnerabilities* [1][2][3][4] as well as unknown threats which is fortunately one of GrapheneOS's many reasonable device support requirements.

[1] https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/more-effective-med...

[2] https://srlabs.de/blog/android-patch-gap

[3] https://srlabs.de/blog/android-patch-gap-2020

[4] https://www.android-device-security.org/talks/

[5] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/vulnerability-manag...