• @[email protected]
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    13 days ago

    Maybe some of them are, but I think most of the down votes are just from people who recognise this as an obvious scam

    • @[email protected]
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      22 days ago

      There is a big difference between a product that is sold at a substantial premium and an actual scam. A scam would be someone selling some cheap Chinese phone rebranded as a privacy phone without any significant differences from a regular Google Android at $1000. This is clearly not that.

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        12 days ago

        But that’s pretty much exactly what this is? Just some random unlockable phone with rebadged lineage on it…

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          11 day ago

          How is LineageOS without all the Google spyware not significantly different from a regular Google Android phone, of which you in the US at least cannot even unlock the bootloader of, let alone install an official Lineage OS port? Also, this is a $300 device, not a $1000 one. Just because you can buy a Pixel and, if you make sure you buy the correct one at least, can unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM if you have the skills and knowledge (and time) to do so, does not make this phone a “scam”.