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The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy

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Re: The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The website states "Pre-Loaded Apps Some of the most popular banned & unbanned conservative sites & apps. Come pre-loaded directly on your Freedom phone." It's basically "Conservative Phone"

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I've been cancelled! Says the wealthy celebrity on a media tour.

Re: The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy

#22
post #14

Somehow with multiple comments about how embarrassing the phones association with republican organizations is, no one seems to be talking about how they backup your messaging data in a possibly insecure way and exposing peoples email address if you have an associated phone number. Surely I can't be the only one who finds it incredibly frustrating to see how many people think being republican associated is noteworthy…

I haven’t seen any comments encouraging anyone to buy this phone.

If you take making fun of the phone and the people dumb/gullible enough to buy the phone, “encouraging republicans to buy this phone,” well, I don’t know what to tell you. If someone is so full of spite for the evil leftists that they’ll run to anything some of those users make fun of, that’s on them.

But no one thus far has encouraged anyone to buy this piece of shit product.

Re: The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy

#24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That marketing video on the homepage is... not particularly convincing, and watching it gives me secondhand embarrassment.

Does that video... actually have the "Activate Windows" watermark in the thumbnail?

How did they even manage to put that watermark there in the first place?

Did they just take a screenshot from an unactivated Windows machine?

This whole project is a joke.

Re: The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy

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post #14

Somehow with multiple comments about how embarrassing the phones association with republican organizations is, no one seems to be talking about how they backup your messaging data in a possibly insecure way and exposing peoples email address if you have an associated phone number. Surely I can't be the only one who finds it incredibly frustrating to see how many people think being republican associated is noteworthy…

Indeed. When I clicked on the thread I expected more serious technical analysis of the bad security. I could get "lol stupid suckers with victim mentality" pretty much everywhere else on the internet. Fortunately at least some of the more egregious comments have since been edited.

When a bunch of the comments are about how stupid the target demographic is, when there's tons of interesting technical meat to talk about, it's kind of embarrassing.

Re: The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy

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post #14

Somehow with multiple comments about how embarrassing the phones association with republican organizations is, no one seems to be talking about how they backup your messaging data in a possibly insecure way and exposing peoples email address if you have an associated phone number. Surely I can't be the only one who finds it incredibly frustrating to see how many people think being republican associated is noteworthy…

> * Somehow with multiple comments about how embarrassing the phones association with republican organizations is, no one seems to be talking about how they backup your messaging data in a possibly insecure way and exposing peoples email address if you have an associated phone number.*

> Surely I can't be the only one who finds it incredibly frustrating to see how many people think being republican associated is noteworthy when in the context of scary privacy violations. It would seem to me you're just encouraging republicans to buy this phone. Surely, the privacy conscious people in this community want privacy for everyone regardless of political affiliations, right?

It's frustrating when people unnecessarily politicize things— like when they express righteous indignation over their inaccurate accusation of political discrimination in a thread that's literally just pointing out its association with divisive partisan political groups.

Re: The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy

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post #14

Somehow with multiple comments about how embarrassing the phones association with republican organizations is, no one seems to be talking about how they backup your messaging data in a possibly insecure way and exposing peoples email address if you have an associated phone number. Surely I can't be the only one who finds it incredibly frustrating to see how many people think being republican associated is noteworthy…

> think being republican associated is noteworthy

I think a phone associated with a specific political party is noteworthy.

Re: The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy

#30

Anything that includes bloatware is untrustable. No question. Why even bother? You can't seriously run a project like this, add a load of bloatware, and expect to be trusted. Even that misjudgment is enough to understand that the people running this have no genuine interest in user privacy. Talk about undercutting your own reason for existing.

I think you might be misattributing their reason for existing.

Hook, line and sinker. Why would anyone take offering seriously?
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