• dukemirage@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I guess many foreign powers are interested in mass surveillance of unstable regions and low budget phones are a good way to do it. People there need phones and don’t have many options, or don’t care because there are worse problems.

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        6 hours ago

        Samsung has been accused of shipping budget Galaxy A and M series smartphones with pre-installed spyware that users can’t easily remove.

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          5 hours ago

          Read the rest of the article.

          They’re talking about “affordable Samsung models”.

          “Budget” for a Samsung, not “budget” for a smartphone on that region and definitelly not “low budged”.

          Want to check what “low budged” means for a smartphone in unstable (read: poor) regions, go to to AliExpress and search for “cheap smartphone”.