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> In China WeChat blocks direct links to their competitors. So apps like Taobao or Douyin have to find a workaround for deeplinks. I'm going to start by saying

by ebg13 6y ago

> In China WeChat blocks direct links to their competitors. So apps like Taobao or Douyin have to find a workaround for deeplinks. I'm going to start by saying "No they don't." They don't _have_ to do anything. They decided to. > In WeChat the link is not clickable. To see the content user has to copy full text and go to the Douyin. The app will read the clipboard They could have chosen to give you a place to put links without snooping your clipboard. That was a decision they made. > I don't think they really made a pipeline for spying using clipboard. Does the app spy on the user's clipboard? Yes. QED.

erk__ 6y ago
They do it to get around very anti competitive behaviour. WeChat pretty much have monopoly on chat in China so if you want to get into that market I guess you have to come up with some way around it. Though I agree that a button that would activate it would likely have been a better way to do it. Even if they did not do anything nefarious this really makes it look like it was.
- ebg13 6y ago
  Spying on users is a dishonorable way to get around another corporate's anti-competitive behavior. Because it was not the only extremely obvious viable option (I mentioned a clearly honest obvious alternative), we have to conclude that they desire to act dishonorably.
zkid18 6y ago
That a big dispute in Sina tech. [0] [0] https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3029309/wechat-sued-blocking-links-taobao-and-tiktok https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3029309/wechat-s... > Chinese users have been complaining that WeChat’s practice of blocking certain apps is a huge blow to user experience. But WeChat isn’t the only one doing it. Chinese tech companies constantly add services to their own ecosystems and block services from other companies, leading some tech watchers to say that China’s mobile internet has been split into pieces. Hope they can fix it one day
- ebg13 6y ago
  > Hope they can fix it one day Taobao/Douyin/etc could save face today by giving you a place to enter links instead of spying.

by ebg13 6y ago

erk__ 6y ago

They do it to get around very anti competitive behaviour. WeChat pretty much have monopoly on chat in China so if you want to get into that market I guess you have to come up with some way around it. Though I agree that a button that would activate it would likely have been a better way to do it. Even if they did not do anything nefarious this really makes it look like it was.

ebg13 6y ago
Spying on users is a dishonorable way to get around another corporate's anti-competitive behavior. Because it was not the only extremely obvious viable option (I mentioned a clearly honest obvious alternative), we have to conclude that they desire to act dishonorably.

zkid18 6y ago

That a big dispute in Sina tech. [0] [0] https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3029309/wechat-sued-blocking-links-taobao-and-tiktok https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3029309/wechat-s... > Chinese users have been complaining that WeChat’s practice of blocking certain apps is a huge blow to user experience. But WeChat isn’t the only one doing it. Chinese tech companies constantly add services to their own ecosystems and block services from other companies, leading some tech watchers to say that China’s mobile internet has been split into pieces. Hope they can fix it one day

ebg13 6y ago
> Hope they can fix it one day Taobao/Douyin/etc could save face today by giving you a place to enter links instead of spying.