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An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones - and it poses a serious surveillance threat

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[–] splendid9583@kbin.earth 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s interesting how this site hides their direct and clear recommendation to de-Google the Google phone on a completely different page from their recommendation to buy the Google phone, which is much more vague on the matter at best. Maybe it really is an ad after all.

[–] splendid9583@kbin.earth 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Having one page for each topic and providing a link to a relevant page when it's useful means that it's less likely that contradictory or outdated information will be provided. The link to the "android distributions" page is currently quite prominent: https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/blame/78726b4c4af8bee974559398c1920ea0f65cd2dc/docs/mobile-phones.md#L37

The "mobile-phones" page is currently quite coupled to Google Pixel phones right now. I would prefer for there to be another type of phone that has been found to be suitable to use, but in the meantime while that is not the case it's probably better to have a page that explains Google Pixel phones in a great amount of detail and indicates that information about Recommended Android Distributions is important.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

Yes that’s all well and good for programming computer code, but that’s not how making arguments through human-readable prose works.