This is true today, but when the new iron curtain goes up and all of our devices are goog-lag’d next year, it won’t be possible, especially with all of the handset makers that distribute in the US being complicit.

Samsung just removed my ability to unlock the bootloader or load any alternate OSes for my handset devices, this summer.

Soon my only options will be to import phones that are only partially compatible with the networks here in the US and that come with their own security and privacy concerns.