(yes, I also see that it says Chinease)
Librewolf, MullvadBrowser and Tor Browser are the way.
firefox is full of bullshit now.
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Nukes because then I get vaporized instantly. 😎
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It comes from chy-nah
Anyone who even compares a for profit corportation to the world’s largest hostile militaristic dictatorship is an idiot. Both bad, but on completely different scales.
Thank you, this is my viewpoint exactly. We are exploited by both but one is after money, the other is a threat.
How can China threatens you? If you live outside of China?
That’s like saying that Putin couldn’t hurt anyone outside of Russia yet he’s had multiple people killed in foreign countries.
How could TikTok helps China threatens America (or the world)?
Usually they can’t, but they can blackmail. Usually only if you’re really really deep in anti Pooh territory though. Pooh is vindictive and thin skinned like our spray tan guy. Spray tan could for example, work with Pooh to surveil and jail dissenters. It’s not that China is a threat to an individual American or other foreigner in a Western country per se, but as long as they could potentially leverage your data against you they do have a little threat. For the record Pooh and spray tan should be sent to an island together to… Oh shit nvm usually rich people and islands aren’t a good thing. 😂
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While they’re at completely different scales, plus will go to much different lengths to abuse what they find out, It comes down to personal peril. I know exactly how Google will use that surveillance data to my detriment and that they’ll openly sell it to more nefarious entities, however I fail to see how the Chinese government would ever have an interest in my data or in selling it.
I don’t use Tik Tok or Huawei, but that’s for other reasons
This post is about China, but why are you talking about the US?
They’re both spyware.
You can’t read let alone understand. Dunno what to explain to you when all you have is accusations of failure when they clearly show your own such.
US looks very militaristic to me. It has a very broken democracy, and a history of supporting/causing brutal dictatorships.
The USA hasn’t taken territory since 1946.
The major reason for the USA being so broken is due to deregulation and corporate greed. Which is a little different in nuance to Authoritarian China.
The US doesn’t try. It just bombs the fuck out of anyone worth exploiting production of anything any private exploitator willing to play “business” there wants.
The ol’ “Bomb it to glass” tactic. A classic tragedy.
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Compared to the dictatorship who are in the process of seizing land and committing genocides on their (according to them) own peoples, yes the USA are fucking saints. See this is my exact problem, two bad things are not equivalent but so many people fail to grasp that.
The control the Chinese gov has over tiktok is on a different scale compared to Google and the US
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How many McDonald’s are there compared to general tso’s chicken?
Both comparisons are irrelevant. It is about how much control and access China/US have over tiktok/Google and the user data and algorithms.
Archy really tried to pull out the Chewbacca Defense.
I doythink those are as different as you say. Through the Patriot Act, american corporate spying is US spying.
Okay but one wants to efficiently sell me worthless trash and the other would happily kill me and take my property given an opportunity, so…
The US has actively used that kind of info to extrajudically kill people, we know that for sure. We don’t know if China actually did that (they probably did).
lol This is simply not true
But the one selling you trash is also sharing that data with the ones who would kill you.
That’s fair but I feel like it’s not in Google’s best interests to collect your photos library, clipboard, message history, contacts info, SSN, banking details, etc and then sell all of it to China for cheap. The extent of Data Collection, and the very obvious malicious intent of it, embedded in TikTok sets it worlds apart.
To be honest I think you can compare them, I feel the word idiot is misplaced here.
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The things the CCP could do with political blackmail gathered from tiktok would make even Zuck blush.
I bet from reading message history they have tons of SSNs and bank details. Probably even information about our military.
At the very least, Google and Facebook have to step back if caught. Meanwhile, Chinese companies often don’t care about EU privacy laws. Still avoid them altogether, any way.
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or worse in the USA.
An estimated 30 to 45 million Chinese citizens died during Mao’s “Great Leap Forward.”
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Not so random. Lay off the whataboutism.
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Android phones looking nervously around.
*Laughs in GrapheneOS*
As a person that has been rooting his phone since 2011/12, I wanna go back to those years. Graphene and lineage have not satisfied my itch and having to keep magisking every few weeks sucks. I miss my galaxy, nexus rooting days.
At least u can put custom firmware on android phones, try to get rid of Apple spyware is much harder.
You cannot put custom firmware. If spyware is hidden in drivers, bootloader or even firmware of the modem there is nothing we can do about it. Custom ROMs are just replacing things above the kernel and below apps.
Still of course things average non CIA person should worry about like Google apps with high privileges are removed with custom ROMs.
well at this point just get a pinphone64 with linux a d hardware switches
Might as well. I will never be satisfied with custom ROMs. I need straight up linux on my phone and none of that android crap.
Foreign spyware is stealing jobs from hardworking American spyware.
This should be a campaign line for 2024
That’s why Google Ultron exists m8
Media platforms are beyond spying. You have nothing to offer.
It’s all about controlling information and feeding you what you need to see.
What you want to see
I honestly doubt that you have full control over that
That’s America spyware. I have standards. /s
Doing at least n amount of spying each day
I use LibreWolf (and don’t use Tik Tok)
Chinease is an enzyme, but I don’t know what it does.
It breaks down china.
The enzyme seems to only work every few centuries
Or whenever the bull passes through.
My brother in Christ I use Firefox
Remember to use also a privacy respecting search engine like searx or at least duckduckgo
Anyone using Firefox is a W to me.
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Waterfox, too
W?
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I hear this all the time. I have this conversation on the regular.
Them: “Oh you think Tik Tok is spyware?”
Me: “yes”
Them: “I’ll have you know so is Google, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Microsoft, and all the big American companies too”
Me: “Yeah, that’s why I don’t use them”
Them: gasp “you’re just paranoid bro are you a drug dealer or something?”
Me: “no, I just like my privacy. You probably wouldn’t like it if some guy was following you keeping tabs about everything you do either.”
Them: “well I’ve got nothing to hide”
Me: “maybe the next person in power might see your current and past beliefs illegal”
Them: “my favourite political party will stay in power forever”
The fact that you have nothing to hide doesn’t imply I’ve to open up anything to anyone without my approval.
And that’s the key here, we are not fully aware of the randomized distribution of your own data for profit.
Me: “do you close the bathroom door while shitting?”
Them: “yes”
Me: “why? You have nothing to hide”
You lock your doors when wanking?
I always lock my car doors when wanking
Me: You’ve got nothing to hide? What’s you’re address I need to get a pair of binoculars
Just ask them if they have curtains or blinds on their windows at home. They have nothing to hide, right?
Ask if their house has walls because if it does so should their country.
Jokes on you I don’t use either ^i ^use ^discord ^and ^windows ^instead
I still use discord, can’t just leave gaming with my friends and I already look too much like a paranoid to convince them to switch to matrix or another FLOSS service
There’s Revolt and TeamSpeak aswell. The latter is proprietary, but the audio quality is something to behold.
Wow teamspeak is still a thing? I remember using them back in 03-05 in my CS clan days before even source came out. I’m fuckin old.
Who needs teamspeak garbage when mumble exists?
Revolt is a good alternative. It’s not perfect right now though. The android app just redirects you to its website.
tbf Discord on all platforms just… is a website…
