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by yjftsjthsd-h 1509 days ago
It probably means something like, "buy a phone, unlock its bootloader, and wipe its data and system partition(s), after which you can flash a ROM of your choice onto the now mostly-blank machine". Depending on the device, you can probably even wipe the vendor partition. Any ways, the point is that in the middle there you have a device with no OS present (hence unable to boot) and probably no Google-ware, so if you flash a privacy-friendly ROM and don't re-add GApps it won't talk to Google.