Edward Snowden fucked up his life for nothing. Everything he revealed, and people are more scared of a government they don't live under using their data -- which they could already just buy from various US-based companies which take plenty of that data for their own purposes.
shit is so stupid. i don't care if the chinese government spies on me. I live in america. It's DHS, ICE, CIA, FBI that want to kidnap me and harvest my organs. chinese govt can't do shit to me and have no reason to. honestly i dare them.
Oh god oh fuck Xi is in my phone. He made my wallpaper an animated Chinese flag flapping in the breeze and the language preferences looked like they're being 变成中国人请帮忙我很害怕
I have a google phone right now but I'd love to get a Chinese phone when I need a new one. I'm pretty sure the party isn't getting transcripts of what I yell at my phone right now, so I'm hoping a Xiaomi or Huawei would be more conducive to sharing my political advice with the chairman
You'd think people interested in phone/computer privacy would take it upon themselves to educate themselves about computer security and how to protect their device.
Turns out they're way more interested in jumping at shadows and demanding praise for acting like a child scared of the monsters under the bed.
Obviously most apps are stealing your data but people's reactions to Temu are literally insane. They have a thing where they'll literally paypal you £20-£40 to refer other users, I was 1 referral away and 2 friends wouldn't download it because it's Chinese. Another two friends said that people they know had money stolen by it... like, legality and possibility aside yes, I'm sure Pinduoduo, one of the BIGGEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD needs to steal your last tenner
Too late sweaty, CCP knows everything you've ever said or done now, along with everyone you've ever talked to. You can't put the cat back in the bottle Charlie. Your whole life is in the communists hands. You might want to turn yourself into your local FBI office and accept your torture and eventual murder for the crimes you've bestowed on this free nation.
I go out of my way to never download any apps that secretly steal data (or ones from China)
So apps from China that don't steal data are also bad?
I've seen someone echo this exact same sentiment, they were suspicious of an open source project on GitHub not having malware because the maintainers were Chinese and there was a Chinese translation of the README file, American propaganda is mind-rotting.
I would actually prefer if a tame country who hasn't been aggressive since its creation besides one or two times, which is thousands of miles away from me, to spy on me
We belive in opsec here because there is a real chance a chud will throw eggs at our house. What data do you have China could want. What could they do with it?