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Freedom Phone comes with Newsmax and OANN apps pre-installed. This takes red flags to a whole new level. https://www.freedomphone.com/ https://www.freedomphone

Freedom Phone comes with Newsmax and OANN apps pre-installed. This takes red flags to a whole new level. https://www.freedomphone.com/ https://www.freedomphone.com/

spaetzleesser 4y ago
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"
- Commodore63 4y ago
  [flagged]
  - 1270018080 4y ago
    I've been cancelled! Says the wealthy celebrity on a media tour.
- jazzyjackson 4y ago
  "con phone" for short
- Beltalowda 4y ago
  The guy in the Freedom Phone video seriously compared Donald Trump to MLK and Abraham Lincoln. lol? He also says "we don't ban apps, period", and the website even calls it "truly uncensorable" – I wonder how that works, but there's no technical details. I also wonder how they'll deal with spam, scams, malware, and other stuff of, ehm, questionable value that will inevitably pop up. I couldn't find much of this "truly uncensorable" app store on the Freedom Phone website, other than the name "ClearAPPS", so I assume it belongs to ClearOS. The ClearOS website is anything but clear though; even the corporate maze sites of HP, IBM, Lenovo, etc. are more clear than that ... thing. I eventually found https://www.clearos.app https://www.clearos.app, and I assume that must be it(?) I installed it on Android Emulator, and it's installed as "ClearAPPS", so I guess so. The thing bills itself as "The Marketplace Built On the security of Decentralized Storage", whatever that may mean. If I press "News" on the app's homepage there are exactly four apps: "Fox News", "Fox Nation: Celebrate America", "America's Voice", and "Just The News". Actually, that's not true: if I select an app and go back I have 8 apps: the app list gets duplicated. If I select "Categories" and go to "News" I see much more. As will surprise probably no one, the entire thing is a buggy piece of crap. When you first start their app it downloads the repository list from their servers; this must be the "truly uncensorable decentralized storage" they're talking about shrug. I couldn't find any clear Terms of Service for this entire thing in either the app or on the website. Source isn't available either as near as I can find; ClearOS has a GitHub, but last update is from 2019. [1]: https://www.clear.software/pages/marketplace-terms-of-service https://www.clear.software/pages/marketplace-terms-of-servic...
actionablefiber 4y ago
That marketing video on the homepage is... not particularly convincing, and watching it gives me secondhand embarrassment.
- JKCalhoun 4y ago
  Ha ha, the "PatriApp" store. Is this guy a Libertechian?
- brendoelfrendo 4y ago
  Does that video... actually have the "Activate Windows" watermark in the thumbnail?
  - can16358p 4y ago
    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.
  - exikyut 4y ago
    ...It does! I honestly don't know what to do with this information. Is this an intentional message? It's extremely overt.
    - kadoban 4y ago
      I wonder if it's similar to how some phising emails will contain intentional grammar and spelling errors. I've been told that this works as a filter, since savvy people will be put off by such things leaving only the easy targets.
- Wistar 4y ago
  Wow. With "secondhand embarrassment" you have deftly labeled a feeling I have had so many times in my life but have never been able to succinctly name.
  - 4y ago
JKCalhoun 4y ago
Wow. Is this a parody phone or something from The Onion?
- callalex 4y ago
  “They’re not sending their best.”
- walrus01 4y ago
  Reality has become indistinguishable from the onion since somebody actually built and shipped a five blade razor
  - glandium 4y ago
    Reality overcame the Onion when somebody actually built and shipped a seven blade razor. I wish I were making this up.
    - manuelabeledo 4y ago
      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-blades/skinguard-sensitive-skin-razor https://gillette.com/en-us/products/razors-trimmers-and-blad...
      - Trouble_007 4y ago
        Jillette, the best the Gullible Man can Get! - Now with over 24 rotating nano-blabes!
      - squarefoot 4y ago
        I think this also happened years ago in a whole different context when some marketing genius invented the "shampoo without balm".
Proven 4y ago
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Freedom Phone comes with Newsmax and OANN apps pre-installed. This takes red flags to a whole new level. https://www.freedomphone.com/ https://www.freedomphone.com/

spaetzleesser 4y ago

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"

Commodore63 4y ago
[flagged]
- 1270018080 4y ago
  I've been cancelled! Says the wealthy celebrity on a media tour.
jazzyjackson 4y ago
"con phone" for short
Beltalowda 4y ago
The guy in the Freedom Phone video seriously compared Donald Trump to MLK and Abraham Lincoln. lol? He also says "we don't ban apps, period", and the website even calls it "truly uncensorable" – I wonder how that works, but there's no technical details. I also wonder how they'll deal with spam, scams, malware, and other stuff of, ehm, questionable value that will inevitably pop up. I couldn't find much of this "truly uncensorable" app store on the Freedom Phone website, other than the name "ClearAPPS", so I assume it belongs to ClearOS. The ClearOS website is anything but clear though; even the corporate maze sites of HP, IBM, Lenovo, etc. are more clear than that ... thing. I eventually found https://www.clearos.app https://www.clearos.app, and I assume that must be it(?) I installed it on Android Emulator, and it's installed as "ClearAPPS", so I guess so. The thing bills itself as "The Marketplace Built On the security of Decentralized Storage", whatever that may mean. If I press "News" on the app's homepage there are exactly four apps: "Fox News", "Fox Nation: Celebrate America", "America's Voice", and "Just The News". Actually, that's not true: if I select an app and go back I have 8 apps: the app list gets duplicated. If I select "Categories" and go to "News" I see much more. As will surprise probably no one, the entire thing is a buggy piece of crap. When you first start their app it downloads the repository list from their servers; this must be the "truly uncensorable decentralized storage" they're talking about shrug. I couldn't find any clear Terms of Service for this entire thing in either the app or on the website. Source isn't available either as near as I can find; ClearOS has a GitHub, but last update is from 2019. [1]: https://www.clear.software/pages/marketplace-terms-of-service https://www.clear.software/pages/marketplace-terms-of-servic...

actionablefiber 4y ago

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

JKCalhoun 4y ago
Ha ha, the "PatriApp" store. Is this guy a Libertechian?
brendoelfrendo 4y ago
Does that video... actually have the "Activate Windows" watermark in the thumbnail?
- can16358p 4y ago
  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.
- exikyut 4y ago
  ...It does! I honestly don't know what to do with this information. Is this an intentional message? It's extremely overt.
  - kadoban 4y ago
    I wonder if it's similar to how some phising emails will contain intentional grammar and spelling errors. I've been told that this works as a filter, since savvy people will be put off by such things leaving only the easy targets.
Wistar 4y ago
Wow. With "secondhand embarrassment" you have deftly labeled a feeling I have had so many times in my life but have never been able to succinctly name.
- 4y ago

JKCalhoun 4y ago

Wow. Is this a parody phone or something from The Onion?

callalex 4y ago
“They’re not sending their best.”
walrus01 4y ago
Reality has become indistinguishable from the onion since somebody actually built and shipped a five blade razor
- glandium 4y ago
  Reality overcame the Onion when somebody actually built and shipped a seven blade razor. I wish I were making this up.
  - manuelabeledo 4y ago
    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-blades/skinguard-sensitive-skin-razor https://gillette.com/en-us/products/razors-trimmers-and-blad...
    - Trouble_007 4y ago
      Jillette, the best the Gullible Man can Get! - Now with over 24 rotating nano-blabes!
    - squarefoot 4y ago
      I think this also happened years ago in a whole different context when some marketing genius invented the "shampoo without balm".

Proven 4y ago

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