# I Tried the "Criminal's" Phone of Choice for a Month **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/i-tried-the-criminals-phone-of-choice-for-a-month/32576 **Category:** General **Created:** 2025-11-04T20:19:05Z **Posts:** 14 ## Post 1 by @KevPham — 2025-11-04T20:19:05Z > **[I Tried the Criminal's Phone of Choice for a Month](https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=gNWVFvDSkZSMA4Be&v=gDR6V5OdnYg&feature=youtu.be)** > > Join us and over 70 million players in one of the most comprehensive vehicle combat games EVER MADE! Check out War Thunder for free today on PC, Console, and... So… LTT decoded to cover Graphene OS. Interesting choice of title :sweat_smile: --- ## Post 2 by @anon57862721 — 2025-11-04T20:23:51Z I’m just happy a mainstream content creator has decided to cover it. Title is clickbait. I can let it go.. though does not bode well for PR reasons. --- ## Post 3 by @ph00lt0 — 2025-11-04T22:09:22Z Title and thumbnail are a bit unfortunate. Video is a lot more positive. --- ## Post 4 by @jellyblurt — 2025-11-04T22:18:51Z There are a lot more people who will look at the thumbnail then scroll past than actually watch the video; I just think it adds unnecessary fuel to the fire which is that only criminals care about privacy. --- ## Post 5 by @anon83428815 — 2025-11-04T22:22:28Z Yeah felt like they went full on “appease the algorithm” with the title and thumbnail but, like you said, a positive video once you get past those. I think its a big net positive for the GOS project for this video to come out. --- ## Post 6 by @ph00lt0 — 2025-11-04T22:22:55Z Indeed and if may be used wrongly as _proof_ that who ever uses grapheneOS is a criminal which is really a bad take. I proudly use grapheneOS btw and I love it. --- ## Post 7 by @Factorial — 2025-11-04T23:39:14Z I think most common thieves, gangsters, drug dealers etc. don’t bother to install custom operating systems to their phones. --- ## Post 8 by @object2598 — 2025-11-05T03:23:12Z Absolutely, I have never met a single drug dealer who used any privacy tool other than telegram and snapchat. No wonder most of them were quickly caught --- ## Post 9 by @yes — 2025-11-05T09:07:32Z > [@object2598](#): > > Absolutely, I have never met a single drug dealer who used any privacy tool other than telegram and snapchat. :face_with_peeking_eye: > [@ph00lt0](#): > > Indeed and if may be used wrongly as _proof_ that who ever uses grapheneOS is a criminal which is really a bad take. People who have never heard of GrapheneOS might think that it is only used by ‘criminals’. It’s a really bad choice of title and thumbnail. --- ## Post 10 by @kissu — 2025-11-05T09:58:22Z Linux knows his audience and is also an amazing sales man, he indeed made the thumbnail fitting some emotional reaction. With something more subtle and less clickbaity, he would have gotten far less views which is a fine tradeoff I think. He also did quite an amazing job presenting GOS’ features and benefits, so no hard feelings haha. :heart: This is probably also one of the best introduction available online given the presentation of the features, the mood and editing. It is also very pragmatic and accessible. :+1:t2: --- ## Post 11 by @ImTooPhaT — 2025-11-05T14:48:16Z The word “Criminal’s” is in quotation, and it’s in reference to recent articles about police officers suspecting Google Pixel users as criminals. Is it clickbait? I think it’s just humourous. --- ## Post 12 by @Encounter5729 — 2025-11-05T16:00:50Z It was on quotation at time of posting but it’s now removed. Edit: it is back. Maybe some YouTube issue then. Edited title. --- ## Post 13 by @ImTooPhaT — 2025-11-05T16:46:42Z Even without the quotation, there’s a screenshot of one of the articles in the video. --- ## Post 14 by @kissu — 2025-11-05T17:57:10Z It’s fine, just AB testing to see which thumbnail fits the best. Quite common on bigger channels that have the bandwidth to create/tinker with thumbnails over the hours/days after the upload.