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@[email protected] @[email protected] Current devices have 7 years of support from launch. Buying a device with 7 years of support near launch and using it for 7 years or better yet buying one someone has already used for a year is the best way for you to conserve resources while having any security at all. You will not have privacy or security on a 4th gen Pixel, and using another OS will not provide it for you even if you wrongly believe that the subset of the AOSP patches you're getting make it reasonable.
@[email protected] @[email protected] It is a highly insecure device where basic privacy and security can't be provided. OS choice really doesn't matter. We tell people all this very clearly in our docs and each release for extended support releases called them out as insecure before they were legacy extended support. Replace the device if you care about privacy and security. Moving to LineageOS or DivestOS will not solve your problem. Neither of those provides decent security even on a non-end-of-life device.