Nowhere on my posts you'll see me even recommending that other brand. That is same as claiming that skin cancer is less cancerous than lung cancer. They're both cancers in the end of the day. Between bad choices the less cancerous Androids are the generic no-brand devices which are made as cheap as possible and spyware is mostly found on software level (their Android distro). Other parts of the hardware already conspire against you. For example the Wi-Fi chipset has a CPU of its own and the code is closed. The CPU itself tends to ship with a co-CPU that does things on its own too. There's those graphs showing market share of Windows, OSX or Linux but in really the operating system present on 100% of those laptops is Minix by the sheer virtue of being hidden as spyware inside each UEFI chip. If you want use a almost-certainly spyware device and even use a suspicously funded distro to go with it: That is your choice. Just don't come over saying you are proud to be dumb. Despite difficult to preserve privacy, you don't really need to make their life super easy. Even worse, you endanger those who interact with you since you confidently assume you are safe because you installed a distro that some paid shills posted 100x times a day here and on hacker news as "safe". And you still feel good about your choice. Think about that.

Those white-label manufacturers don't have their own foundries, they're assembling using the same garbage designed and used by the big brands. I mistrust my Qualcomm modems more than any other component. The fact you didn't even mention them makes me doubt the depth of your knowledge. Cellular modems run a full Linux system, and have full access to the network. The only thing you have over me is a willingness to indulge in ad hominem and call names. Sad. I won't be taking technical advice from you seriously, and I won't recommend anyone else do so, either. Have you compiled a full Android ROM yourself, ever?