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The very next text in the article after what you quoted (following the image) is:

> I consider this a customer-hostile practice. I should not have to connect a piece of hardware to the Internet, even once, to use all of its features. If I hadn’t connected the Pixel 7 Pro to the Internet, then “OEM unlocking” would have stayed greyed out, thus I would not have been able to unlock the bootloader, thus I would not have been able to install GrapheneOS

The author then describes connecting the phone to a networking sandbox and monitoring its traffic, all the way through where they were eventually able to unlock it after giving it internet access.

> Have you read that part?

> >Google sold it to me with “OEM unlocking” greyed out.

> So no unlocking even with internet access.

Reading the whole article reveals that the option is enabled after providing internet access.

Overread that, my bad.

Have you read that part?

> If I hadn’t connected the Pixel 7 Pro to the Internet, then “OEM unlocking” would have stayed greyed out, thus I would not have been able to unlock the bootloader, thus I would not have been able to install GrapheneOS.