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[–] skyline2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Regardless of whether or not its worthy of discussion, this is heavily AI assisted at least, and GrapheneOS does not allow "walls of verbose text" (which this certainly is...) generated by AI.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/11951-ai-generated-text-is-forbidden-with-the-exception-of-automated-translation

Maybe if this person cared enough to follow the forum rules there could be discussion on this topic.

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 days ago

Yeah, a lot of this is undisclosed LLM drivel. Also, the "author" fails to mention or consider that none of the scummy logging/control services would be running in GrapheneOS in the first place. It's irrelevant.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago

I'm curious if anybody read the article and had a convincing point from it.

I scrolled down and was greeted with paragraphs about other phone manufacturers and carriers unrelated to Motorola. Not only is it slop, but additionally the author either doesn't trust their own evidence enough to keep it concise... or, worse, they didn't even bother to read it.

Samsung Electronics → Samsung Group Samsung is a South Korean conglomerate. While it is independent of Chinese state influence, Samsung ships its own extensive telemetry framework (Knox, Samsung Ads) on every device, and its carrier-customized firmware for prepaid devices includes its own extensive set of un-removable bloatware.

Digital Turbine, Inc. (NASDAQ: APPS) is an Austin, Texas-based publicly traded company. It operates the "Ignite" platform (com.dti.tracfone). Their business model relies on carrier contracts where providers like Verizon/TracFone allow Digital Turbine to preinstall software, charging app developers to silently drop applications onto devices as high-yield advertising delivery vehicles.