The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy

Post by ImPostingOnHN » Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 9:15 AM UTC

tomc1985 wrote: post #59

filmgirlcw wrote: post #22

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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 th…

Here? I don't think you're going to see any. And I think there's a legitimate use-case for people who feel that their favorite social networks are censored. Doesn't matter if the apps are full of garbage, that is what they want.

Post by throwawayjjrr » Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 9:51 AM UTC

andai wrote: post #56

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #37

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The problem here is that "Freedom" in "FreedomPhone" does not seem to be "freedom" the way free software advocates define it, or privacy advocates define it; it seems to be "freedom" the way far-right activists use it as a dogwhistle. If people are a bit focused on the company's politics, it's because they put those politics front and center. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if there was some company d…

Re: [1] I was wondering what a phone targeting left-leaning people would look like, but I think that's pretty much just Twitter, Tumblr etc? You seem to disagree on this point, so I'd be curious to hear more.

Post by manuelabeledo » Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 10:11 AM UTC

fmajid wrote: post #40

breakfastduck wrote: post #5

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.

Anything referencing blockchain or cryptocurrencies is a scam. That also applies to the original Signal.

Post by manuelabeledo » Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 10:23 AM UTC

glandium wrote: post #49

walrus01 wrote: post #44

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Reality has become indistinguishable from the onion since somebody actually built and shipped a five blade razor

Reality overcame the Onion when somebody actually built and shipped a seven blade razor. I wish I were making this up.

Post by Trouble_007 » Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 11:05 AM UTC

manuelabeledo wrote: post #97

glandium wrote: post #49

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Reality overcame the Onion when somebody actually built and shipped a seven blade razor. I wish I were making this up.

They went full circle and now Gillette is selling a premium razor for sensitive skin… with two blades. No kidding: https://gillette.com/en-us/products/razors-trimmers-and-blad...