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FYI: this is CHINA ONLY that they did this. With China being a totalitarianism shithole this was to be expected

I don't know why this thread is complaining specifically about Chinese OEMs when Samsung has been doing this for years.

Fuses... That's like what the first Switch did to try to deal with jailbreak.

In better times, this would at least get a class action.

And yet my LinkedIn is still full of people complaining about how much the EU over-regulates

That means they were making money by people running their os.

If they spend the money on re-engineering their devices not to allow it, there was a cost advantage to selling your data.

So never buy OnePlus products. Got it. Thanks OnePlus for making the advice so clear!

"OnePlus shoots own foot. Likely to blame consumers for it"

Many users were buying OpenPlus Pro smartphones solely because of the ability to unlock the bootloader and flash custom ROMs. People value freedom and customization. OpenPlus is shooting itself in the foot.

Wow, what happened to OnePlus? They used to be so cool. Hell, the first one ran Cyanogen.

OnePlus is a Chinese company. Anybody who trusted a Chinese company to respect privacy, consumer rights, and ownership freedom is a complete idiot.

Holy shit. I wanted to say something constructive, but just…. holy shit. Intentional hard brick of a customer owned device….

Wasn't OnePlus like worshipped because of how much support for custom ROMs wth

"...long enough to become the villain."

so it basically permanently "damages" the phone when you try to root it, seems like they are asking for a lawsuit at some point.

If true, this is sabotage of the customers product, and must 100% be illegal in almost any country!!
But my guess is they are limiting this to countries that have absolute shit consumer protection.

Miss my Oneplus 7 Pro. popup cameras <3

One plus joined my short list of "I can't be bothered" companies like Samsung and Apple, Xiaomi, Oppo and some other sub par companies.

I bought a OP 9Pro just before Oppo decimated the company. They moved from Oxygen OS to a poorly camouflaged version of Oppo Color OS and stripped out some of the features that made Oneplus what it was. Oppo also almost completely stopped fixing bugs, even some really serious ones that had been long documented. I recently bought a new phone and didn't even consider ~~Oneplus~~ Oppo.

It seems to me that the only reason Oppo would do this is to preserve the revenue they get from selling customer data that should remain private. Otherwise why would Oppo care what OS people run on their hardware?

I get why they do this, because downgrade attacks are a thing that are used to exploit devices remotely, but there are other ways to implement this, like what GrapheneOS does. Downgrading can also just be restricted to unlocked bootloaders as well via a software revocation list that gets deleted/bypassed upon unlocking.

There is no good reason for devices to use efuses to block downgrades unless they are trying to restrict user freedom a la consoles.

Well...So did Samsing with Samsung Knox