For example, privacy violating linksys or netgear, or devices with components running improper firmware with a 14 year old vulnerability?
The reason that I ask, although I don’t want this to impact the quality of answers, is that I’m shopping for a new router that is secure and private but rather than paying commercial and industrial prices I would rather get a consumer router and overwrite it’s software.
You’re right, and that’s definitely a difficult price to beat. Plus as far as I can tell if a tplink device is still evil after flashing openwrt there’s really no reason the same couldn’t be true of devices like the banana pi or raspberry pi.
mvirts downvoted itself in its confusion
You’re right, though, that Raspberry Pis are much more trustworthy as far as brand optics are concerned.