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was blue too-good-to-be-true the blue r1 HD was the best-selling phone on Amazon a basic Android phone that only cost around $60 but Amazon has stopped selling the phone and all other blue phones this week following reports that some blue models are loaded with spine software a pre-installed program that secretly tracks users text messages and activity and sends that information to China the fact that blue had spine software isn't exactly breaking news researchers discovered this back in November and at the time the phone manufacturer blue said it fixed the problem but it didn't quite fast forward to today and researchers still found the tracking software inside a different blue phone blue denied any wrongdoing that says it isn't a process of review to get those phones back on Amazon blue was part of Amazon's prime exclusive phones you see Amazon sold boot phones as such a discounted price in exchange for putting Amazon ads on the phone's lockscreen blue says the questionable software made by Shanghai add ups technology is not spyware and that has several policies in place which take customer privacy and security seriously I'm Bridget Carey for more details on this story head to cnet.com