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From google? I got mine from second hand market
I don't trust Google hardware
What other hardware do you trust, if any?
Only Chinese. OnePlus and Motorola. . I'm waiting on Motorola to release a device specifically for graphene
What makes Chinese hardware more trustworthy?
It's not made by a US company. Meaning there is no insensives to add us gov backdoors or something for military or for companies like palantir.
Google is an ad company. They have insensitives to collect all the data on us.
Oh yeah cause China is known for freedom and privacy.
I hate big tech too but i promise you China is no better.
I'm. I'm going to disagree. All the antihuman inventions like AI and palanter recently seems to be coming from domestic geniuses
and china has almost all messaging through government controlled app wechat, qr payments everywhere, active tracking for social credit score, and blocked internet traffic for specific websites. they are definitely big on surveillance...
if anything they have more incentive to add backdoors to phones going overseas, look at what happened with huawei
That person (if they are a person at all) to whom you're responding can't be serious.
Murena Fairphone
How is that not indirectly funding Google?
That still drives sales and demand for future manufactured Pixels... Google thanks you for your patronage.
They are low priced because they expect data harvesting to happen
Agreed! The shocking part for me is how few folks are forgetting the most basic tenets of high school econ, supply and demand.
They're aren't 8 billion used pixels to go around, and if there were... GOOGLE WOULD BUILD MORE. It's an ineffective boycott.
This joining gets me a lot of downvotes on Reddit, but I'm telling you, GOS acolytes are the cross-fitters of the degoogling world.
Its the best we have until Linux phones become more viable
Does it? I men's yeah there are several people that upgraded and sold their old model but they could as well go for another phone