Well the pixel 8 will be supported for quite a while, for now you’ve tried all the things you can but if you prevent it from updating maybe they’ll publically patch an exploit you can use to gain root.
I think Verizon in particular does this because they eat a lot of the cost for the phone and lock you into using their network, they want that cost recouped but since they’re not legally required to unlock it after they recoup their cost they will do nothing.
They should legally be required to allow bootloader unlocking after they stop supporting it but regulators are too busy inventing reasons for us poors to hate eachother.
Well the pixel 8 will be supported for quite a while, for now you’ve tried all the things you can but if you prevent it from updating maybe they’ll publically patch an exploit you can use to gain root. I think Verizon in particular does this because they eat a lot of the cost for the phone and lock you into using their network, they want that cost recouped but since they’re not legally required to unlock it after they recoup their cost they will do nothing. They should legally be required to allow bootloader unlocking after they stop supporting it but regulators are too busy inventing reasons for us poors to hate eachother.