GodricWho needs it?
TachyonTeleChina is a perfect communist motherland that doesn’t need anyones secrets!
Yes, I also live China and their all-seeing government.
NONEI have a Xiaomi phone. They already know everything about me.
My gf had xiaomi once. Had to visit the doctors a lot before it cleared up.
Haha this joke is funny because foreigners have funny words and sound stupid
Ayyyy!
I mean I’d rather China know everything about me than America, since as an American citizen, America is a much bigger threat.
But lets be honest, whether I get an iphone, samsung, or huawei, both countries are going to have all my data.
Facts
Tell me, did I have a fever dream about this or does Xiaomi actually have ads in their settings and system apps?
Not that I’ve seen. The only annoying thing is this weird Wallpaper Carousel they keep wanting me to use
It isn’t a dream, more like a nightmare.
I mean, they can be disabled, but it is pain in the ass to do so.
nopeYou could change ROM. Then the software wouldn’t spy on you anymore
I could, but how phones work with respect to PCs has always seemed very complicated to me and I don’t want to screw up my phone.
Understandable tbh. Depending on your phone, there are chances it’s actually fairly easy to change ROMs, you could also try stuff out on an older device of yours or your family’s
culpritTikTok China
TeleMessage Israel or anyone really
cm0002I mean, I have it installed, but I have it installed in a “sandbox” (Co-opting androids work profile feature) I use Insular
But looking now, it seems it hasn’t been updated in a year so I might have to look for an alternative soon if it has issues when I upgrade to Android 16 lol
forgetful_foxLook into Shelter, it works on latest Android though it’s been several months since the last update.
What is the point of these apps besides duplicating the app space? Does it actually provide any additional sandboxing that the android OS doesn’t do already?
I already get the same thing from the YouTube app which won’t shut the fuck up about Shorts
Uninstalling that app was a game changer…so much better on browser with unblock origin running.
Fr if something works in browser I will never use the app.
Some exceptions for things which require better encryption.
HollowNaughtUuuuuse a foss youtube frontend wooooooo like freetube woooooooooo…
(Insert other ghostly noises)
Pipepipe for life. By far the best YouTube experience around.
FenderStratocasterYouTube shorts are fantastic. You have to be into misogyny though.
Ricky RigatoniMy shorts are just cats and dogs acting silly and the rare REPO clip…
Interesting. All it shows me are cats, hair cut/dying, coffee, animals being silly, and comedic videos.
Mine was all this anti-women stuff, so I closed it and never looked back.
Did you enable saving history, custom recommendations…?
I get IDKsterling, shorts by miniminuteman, institute for justice, tasting history, stuff like that, then occasional cat/funny/meme videos that are largely benign
x4740NLog into YouTube on incognito mode
The terrible shit will he there, I saw it for the first time in a while after testing sound on live fedora before installing it on dual boot
So YouTube can see if you’re wearing a fedora & if you are, it shows you a grip of “alpha male” videos?
I sign out to view shorts, clear site data, then manually search a couple of “seed” videos I like to get the algorithm picking out new stuff.
It won’t even show you anything unless you have some viewing history. It’s just straight up broken for people who have had accounts for many years.
Lol that’s close to what I do. It used to show you videos based on your likes and subs even with eatch history off but now they will refuse.
So I just temporarily turned on history, watch some seeds, then turn it off again, and voila, it suggests based on likes and subs just like before.
I don’t get Shorts. I can’t watch them on my PlayStation, if I click on one on the phone app it’ll disconnect the PlayStation and force me to watch it on my phone.
If you try to upload a video that is less than a minute long, it forces you to do Shorts.
I also don’t get why opening up a community thread or something pauses the video I’m watching on the PlayStation.
I’ve also noticed lately that when I connect the phone app with the PlayStation, about 30% of the time, the video will play extremely slow without sound. I have to close and reboot the YouTube app on the PlayStation to watch anything afterwards.
Sounds like a bunch of shit if you ask me!
Check out revanced.app. You’re welcome.
dephyreBig brain move, let’s make them buy our data from someone else. 🙌
Better to get your data spied on by China than by the USA who might share it with your home country 👀
See this implies that your home country is more likely to rob and kill you than China, which simply isn’t true in 9/10 cases.
Except in this timeline
What? How is china likely to rob or kill me, or you?
Pig Butchering Scams
Invasion/War
Lexi SneptaurI see we’re just making stuff up at this point lmao
You think this is some gotcha but it has absolutely no meaning to anyone outside of your conspiracy bubble
Supposed to be the picture of oyghurs I believe
Nah it’s a massive military complex with a very large bunker much larger than the pentagon that China tried to very quietly build in only 9 months. They’ve been building up their military for years, preparing for something. Maybe just a conflict with India and some additional landgrabs like they’ve been doing, or maybe a much larger conflict.
Shocking: very large nation with over a billion people in it has a military.
I see other nations spend a lot, but I don’t see the USA’s new pentagon 10x as big with an added nuclear bunker the size of a small city. This is far from their only recent buildup, either. China isn’t preparing for an unlikely future, it’s certain something is coming.
In all of this you’ve provided nothing to back up these claims. It’s giving “conspiracy theorist”.
China has not armed Pakistan to attack India. China has not attacked ships and satellites outside of their territory. China has not conquered multiple neighboring nations recently. China is not allied with North Korea who is constantly launching missiles across the bay. There is no war in China.
/Sarcasm
NelotsI believe you are far more likely to be killed by your home country than china in most cases, simply by the fact that china isn’t near most of us. By no means is it a great place, but china is not exactly out there sending hit men to take out some random Joe because of the videos they were watching.
No, that’s not why they want to take you out. If it were they wouldn’t have sent you the videos.
Vanilla_PuddinFudgeTo quote a famous Chinese saying, “same-same”
AmnesigenicUS tiktok data has been hosted by Oracle on their own servers on US soil for several years now, China doesn’t have access to it. Also they can and do just buy your user data from US companies. If you don’t like Tiktok then you don’t have to use it, but fear of Chinese surveillance is a stupid reason to avoid the app.
China most likely has access.
Nothing in this article or anywhere else presents any actual evidence that the Chinese government ever had direct access to US user data, and the claims presented here all predate the transition to Oracle servers, which were conducted in cooperation with the US government specifically to ensure that US user data wouldn’t be available to the Chinese government. The easiest route to our data has been and continues to be buying it from US companies, which is still completely legal.
They still know your name, phone number, relationships, and every piece of info ever supplied to or from you in a text message going back as far as it is recorded on every phone which has ever downloaded the app. Your mother, your brother, your sister, your ex.
It’s a cruel and terrible world for those who aren’t ignorant.