[backscratches]

I have been using google phones since the nexus and have never given google any money or paid more than $300 far a device. I am essentially pirating billions of dollars of expert development from them and they get nothing in return. In a real way I am actively siphoning value from google making them lose money (they get none of my data, which is what they hoped to actieve by producing the hardware).

[fsflover]

If you're talking about buying used Pixels, you are affecting the market effectively increasing the value of Google's phones, which in the end benefits Google.

[backscratches]

I get more out of it than they do.