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> I'd use it more readily than I'd use the american counterpart. I have to travel to the US sometimes, but not so much in China, so China knowing things about m

> I'd use it more readily than I'd use the american counterpart. I have to travel to the US sometimes, but not so much in China, so China knowing things about me affects me much less. Why does traveling in the US and the US knowing things about you affect you? > As others said, yeah, you're already doing those things. Everything is made in China. Not by Chinese companies though. Individual parts are made there, but they are designed by non-Chinese companies and the manufacturing process is overseen by these companies. > That's why you never see "made in China" stickers on anything. See my last point. > That's also the largest country in the world, and it's the only market you can say that for. The US is 1/20th of the world. Last time I checked, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (not to mention Apple products and Google) were used outside the US as well. I don't think anyone in Europe uses a Chinese Facebook clone or Twitter clone.

StavrosK 10y ago
> Why does traveling in the US and the US knowing things about you affect you? Because I can be detained by a country (or denied entry) much more easily when I am in the country than when I am not. > Not by Chinese companies though. Individual parts are made there, but they are designed by non-Chinese companies and the manufacturing process is overseen by these companies. I don't believe that "Chinese company" automatically equals "crap". Xiaomi makes some of the best products I've ever used (and they definitely have the best quality to price ratio of anyone), my Huawei phone is amazing, everything I bought from Ali has been good, etc. > Last time I checked, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (not to mention Apple products and Google) were used outside the US as well. I don't think anyone in Europe uses a Chinese Facebook clone or Twitter clone. The western world uses those products. I would be surprised if nobody outside China uses them. Maybe they don't, I don't know the WeChat penetration numbers for countries outside China...

StavrosK 10y ago

> Why does traveling in the US and the US knowing things about you affect you? Because I can be detained by a country (or denied entry) much more easily when I am in the country than when I am not. > Not by Chinese companies though. Individual parts are made there, but they are designed by non-Chinese companies and the manufacturing process is overseen by these companies. I don't believe that "Chinese company" automatically equals "crap". Xiaomi makes some of the best products I've ever used (and they definitely have the best quality to price ratio of anyone), my Huawei phone is amazing, everything I bought from Ali has been good, etc. > Last time I checked, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (not to mention Apple products and Google) were used outside the US as well. I don't think anyone in Europe uses a Chinese Facebook clone or Twitter clone. The western world uses those products. I would be surprised if nobody outside China uses them. Maybe they don't, I don't know the WeChat penetration numbers for countries outside China...