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Can someone from Google please explain why is this literal spyware allowed in Play Store? And why ISPs don't block such obvious widely spread spyware?
by Markoff 7y ago
Can someone from Google please explain why is this literal spyware allowed in Play Store?
And why ISPs don't block such obvious widely spread spyware?
- lolc 7y agoI'm not affiliated with any of the players. Still the reason of why Wechat is available is clear to me: Unlike many other apps that track you on the side, this one is actually needed by a large chunk of Android users. And I mean needed in the strong sense of losing family and business ties if it were removed. It's pretty much utility-level at this point. If your store doesn't have it, people will use another store. And if your phone can't use that store, people will use another phone because that one is useless to them. We should discuss how people can get better choices than Wechat. But in the end it will involve political solutions. Not just technical ones.
- Markoff 7y agostrange, when I lived in China nobody cared I can't communicate with my family abroad for business everyone is using VPN or email, do you really think people will be isntalling Chinese spyware to their phones to talk to their business partners in China?