Tankiedesantski [he/him] @ Tankiedesantski @hexbear.net

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All three gsX folders were empty by the way, and that doesn't explain why the samsung was squeaky clean. By your own admission this is no longer the case on newer versions of the apps and android, so you should at the very least go back and edit your post to put it into past tense.

Also, your assertion was that all Chinese apps are similar, so 3 out of dozens makes your statement demonstrably false.

First of all, if there is a better source then OP should post the better source to begin with. Everyone should be skeptical when presented with a second hand summary of something going through two weak sources.

As for the original source, it's an NED front based in the US so as far as I'm concerned it can be dismissed with no further consideration.

The first link is just quoting the social media post verbatim. Treat it with the same degree of reliability as "this guy said on Facebook/Twitter..."

Second article actually goes out of its way to say how uncommon it is to be punished for circumventing the firewall:

“Climbing the firewall results in punishment” is not the norm A common misunderstanding among the public about circumvention is that anyone who circumvents the wall will be punished. This is unrealistic for two reasons: first, the public security organs do not have that many law enforcement police; second, the public security organs are not as busy as you think. Most of the time, the punishment for circumventing the wall is to pull out the radish and bring out the mud. There are typical cases where the public security organs take the initiative to go to the external network to arrest people, but the number is very small.

Judging from the 50 cases, only one case adopted the first-level "extreme law enforcement model", that is, the "use of circumvention software is punishable" model. The description of the case was "A certain person used his own mobile phone to use a VPN on the Internet to circumvent the firewall." Wall software, its behavior constitutes the unauthorized use of non-legal channels for international networking." Even so, the actual situation of enforcement may be different from the description of the administrative penalty decision.

I just tried this with both my Xiaomi and my Samsung using both first party and third party file managers. Xiaomi showed 3 .gsX folders despite it being absolutely full of Chinese apps that I loaded on. Samsung with the same method had zero.

Why are all Chinese apps like this?

The next step is to dismantle the dominance of Western media.

If you ever notice, all apps developed in china are similar. Ads at start, invasive tracking using dummy images dropped in /pictures, unnecessary permissions like phone and IMEI, and so on. They literally don't have a way to compare to something else. There's the Baidu SDK, Tencent SDK, aliyun SDK and they are using bad coding practices because they're doing that in isolation

What kind of shitty apps are you installing? Some of the most popular mobile games in the world are Chinese (Genshin, Honkai, Azurlane, Ark Knights, etc) and none of them do any of this shit.

I went to China recently with a buddy and I loaded a ton of China specific apps onto our phones. Mine was a Samsung and his was an iPhone. Between WeChat, Alipay, Taobao, Amap, DiDi, Dianping, the China Customs Service app and a bunch of other store and region specific apps, literally none of them did anything you described. I also bought a Xiaomi phone in China and migrated all my data over, so I can confirm that these apps don't do anything like that even on a Chinese phone (which, btw, is way more strict with permissions than my Samsung, down to telling me each and every time google maps requested my location).

In addition to that, I have a bunch of apps for stuff from Chinese companies on my phone like Mijia, Fiio, Huawei, Moondrop, etc and none of them do this shit either.

Third party scraped reports citing a crypto shill site's reporting on a blurry and redacted document from China's equivalent of Facebook is how I get all my accurate and true news about things that really happened.

Khokholbanderites

Medvedev sure has a way with words...

I've never seen a case of boba liberal self hate so extreme that it spills over onto Pandas.

Stealing a panda would be seen by Chinese people like Americans would see China stealing a bald eagle. Even if the Chinese government decided not to escalate, it'd probably lead to a boycott costing America billions of dollars.

They sure do sleep a lot. Checks out.

American Panda Diplomacy would just be pointing a gun at a panda and making demands.

the key difference between the two countries. One accepted it, the other is actively fighting against it.

China has one of the strictest personal data protection laws in the world, surpassing the EU GDPR in some respects. The United States has basically nothing.

Your statement is correct, but I'm guessing this isnt what you were intending to imply.

Not being directly charged and found guilty isn't the trump card they think it i

Also, military divisions don't have legal personhood so you can't file charges against them like you could a company. You file charges against the commanders and the men, or in the case of the SS you declare it to be a criminal organization in it entirety.

In totalitarian 1984 China, government surveillance is so pervasive that even private companies that have no law enforcement function will send surveillance data to the state.

I'm recanting on my position that Stalin did nothing wrong. Clearly kindly comrade Stalin fucked up by letting this guy's grandpa live.

Canadians when they find out that "sorry" is not a magic spell that stops other people from criticizing them:

To the Canadian mind, not being allowed to slink away from the consequences of their actions with a meaningless apology is the worst thing on Earth.