MAGA-Branded 'Freedom Phone' Is a Black Box That Should Be Avoided at All Costs - please don't buy (((this)))

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This whole article is a bullshit smear piece.

A discount China phone, yes. All cell phones are discount China phones. That doesn't make it bad.
You can buy this phone with no OS or software for $125. So? OS's cost money and an OS that prevents tracking is worth the $375.
"May be". No actual reviews. No actual tests. No actual data. This "may be" this or that based on previous tests of the cheap phone but not the OS that's on the freedom phone.
Note the massive ((())) effort to stear you away from this phone. It may leak data like a strainer, but the awareness that we are being tracked, traced, and monitored and the effort by people to avoid these things is important.

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A discount China phone, yes. All cell phones are discount China phones. That doesn't make it bad.

That's true, it being a Chinese phone does not make it bad. However, if someone were truly offering a freedom phone they would be open about where the phone came from and where the software it's running came from. Someone hiding that background is likely not being honest.

You can buy this phone with no OS or software for $125. So? OS's cost money and an OS that prevents tracking is worth the $375.

That's true, an OS that prevents tracking is worth $375. Android does not prevent tracking and is also free. Forks of Android that attempt to prevent tracking, such as LineageOS and GrapheneOS, are also free. "FreedomOS" has many possibilities, none of them good: * A fork of Android with no changes that thus still tracks * A fork of Android with changes, which is probably worse than all the work that went in to LineageOS/GrapheneOS * A fork of LineageOS/GrapheneOS with no changes, which is not worth $375 more than the price of LineageOS/GrapheneOS ($0) * A fork of LineageOS/GrapheneOS with changes; in which case why not say so instead of hiding it?

No actual reviews. No actual tests. No actual data.

Correct. A completely unknown company with no background just appeared on the market and claimed to have a new phone worth $499 with no spec sheet, no explanation of the operating system, and no reviews or tests. It sounds like ANOM to me.

Note the massive ((())) effort to stear you away from this phone.

Hegelian dialectic is a thing. If ((())) says X is bad that's not always because X is good, it's often because Y is good and they want to keep the "rebels" stuck thinking X is good.

but the awareness that we are being tracked, traced, and monitored and the effort by people to avoid these things is important.

Indeed it is. Instead of replacing Twitter with Parler, try replacing it with a Fediverse instance such as https://noagendasocial.com/public . Instead of trusting random unknown companies that slapped an ~~rainbow~~ american flag on "their" products, try following people who have been supporting open mobile devices for years like https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/de-googling-an-android-10-phone:a .

If you would like to talk further you can find me on IRC, XMPP, Matrix, Fediverse, Aether, etc.

>A discount China phone, yes. All cell phones are discount China phones. That doesn't make it bad. That's true, it being a Chinese phone does not make it bad. However, if someone were truly offering a freedom phone they would be open about where the phone came from and where the software it's running came from. Someone hiding that background is likely not being honest. >You can buy this phone with no OS or software for $125. So? OS's cost money and an OS that prevents tracking is worth the $375. That's true, an OS that prevents tracking is worth $375. Android does not prevent tracking and is also free. Forks of Android that attempt to prevent tracking, such as LineageOS and GrapheneOS, are also free. "FreedomOS" has many possibilities, none of them good: * A fork of Android with no changes that thus still tracks * A fork of Android with changes, which is probably worse than all the work that went in to LineageOS/GrapheneOS * A fork of LineageOS/GrapheneOS with no changes, which is not worth $375 more than the price of LineageOS/GrapheneOS ($0) * A fork of LineageOS/GrapheneOS with changes; in which case why not say so instead of hiding it? >No actual reviews. No actual tests. No actual data. Correct. A completely unknown company with no background just appeared on the market and claimed to have a new phone worth $499 with no spec sheet, no explanation of the operating system, and no reviews or tests. It sounds like ANOM to me. >Note the massive ((())) effort to stear you away from this phone. Hegelian dialectic is a thing. If ((())) says X is bad that's not always because X is good, it's often because Y is good and they want to keep the "rebels" stuck thinking X is good. >but the awareness that we are being tracked, traced, and monitored and the effort by people to avoid these things is important. Indeed it is. Instead of replacing Twitter with Parler, try replacing it with a Fediverse instance such as https://noagendasocial.com/public . Instead of trusting random unknown companies that slapped an ~~rainbow~~ american flag on "their" products, try following people who have been supporting open mobile devices for years like https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/de-googling-an-android-10-phone:a . ------ If you would like to talk further you can find me on IRC, XMPP, Matrix, Fediverse, Aether, etc.

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