The same is true for most of macOS/iOS and large parts of the basic feature set found in Android. I can get behind that mindset, but if you're using Windows you've already given up your ability to introspect your system. The risk of using this is much higher than running proprietary ShutUp10, which is already non-zero since it's proprietary. Though I have zero reason to distrust the Ameliorated folks, you generally never want to mess with software (especially OSes) downloaded from anyone other than the official vendor. If there was one single Lineage build for all phones, I'd feel much more comfortable with it. Not to Lineage, where every phone model has its own build and dev team, and each build gets used by maybe a few hundred or thousand people, and reviewed by practically nobody. The "open-source means security because code gets vetted" argument only applies to big projects like Chromium, where hundreds of major corporations with world-class software engineers review, and contribute to the source code. Same exact reason people should strongly consider staying away from LineageOS builds and other such things, where the dev team of half a dozen non-vetted anonymous forum users is responsible for everything running on your phone. See XcodeGhost that got caught way after the fact.
Generally, even the idea of using an OS downloaded from a random site (big Linux distributions excepted) is a security nightmare: you're trusting random, anonymous people not to put malware deep enough into the OS image where it won't easily be found.
This reminds me of the old "Windows XP Service Pack 4", or Windows 7 Minimalist ISOs that were going around.
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