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Sometimes people don't buy cheap things by choice
True. I am sorry for not specifying it, I should've done it. Of course if someone gets a cheap 100$ phone out of necessity, it is very weird of me to judge this person.
you can get older flagships for $100 on eBay that work way better then a new $100 low end phone. And you can even put custom roms on them
They don't know better.
As if expensive phones are any better
You know, you're right. I've deleted my main comment - I think this topic cannot be broken down that easily. While I am concerned that privacy laws are often ridiculed by big companies, my comment was very classist. So thanks for calling me out, I feel weird about it now.
Oh, no need to feel weird about it. Many devices have gotten cheaper than their alternatives because of the grotesque amount of data they collect.
So assuming that cheaper means more invasive seems perfectly plausible, I can't fault you for that.
Yes, absolutely. But many cheap devices are relatively data-friendly, and many expensive are data collection machineries. While there is obviously a correlation, it definitely isn't a causality, and I feel strange breaking it down like that.