Rob Braxman's review of the Librem 5

I got curious enough to do a comprehensive search surrounding their public identity and came up with nothing substantial regarding their formal credentials; all of it seems to be self-proclaimed. That being said, considering this is someone who has some experience with security/privacy/anonymity, I am not altogether surprised if it affected the strict management of their brand’s credibility.

Browsing their product catalogue suggests that they are an Amazon affiliate, but they do not disclose that anywhere on their website.

Note the shortened Amazon URL at the end of this particular product.

While navigating their website, they also use trackers appended in the URL, but they are not familiar to me compared to Matamo/Piwik or Google Analytics; here is a list of a few examples:

https://brax.me/l.php?source=web&h=rob&version=
https://brax.me/prod/privacy.php?s=web
https://brax.me/prod/license-v1.php?i=Y&s=web

All of this and more goes against their claims in their first paragraph right on the main page:

I could go on, but I think this is enough. Besides, my “Review of Rob Braxman” is off-topic.

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