Nothing against the OS, but if your gripes are about the search bar or weather widget, couldn’t you use a different launcher?

Probably because we have a mega thread for this

I’m not the dude above but I did buy one and I’ve been having too many hardware issues to keep it. Bluetooth is really flaky, fingerprint reader works very infrequently, panel uniformity is worse than the pixel 2XL. Basically the only thing it has going for it is the software and form factor

I have a Pixel 6. After ~10 years of Google phones (Nexus 5, 6P, Pixel 2XL, 6) the world’s shittiest modem in my 6 is pushing me to switch to Zenfone 10. They would need to make the Pixel 8 with an infinitely better modem, a fingerprint reader that isn’t under the screen, a 6" screen max, and a plastic back instead of glass.

You can temporarily disable link handling for the Fi app (apps > default apps > opening links), make the privacy change in-browser, and then re-enable link handling after