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I'm kind of curious how Beeper will handle some of these - they claim to soon support WeChat, and emulating WeChat is a bit insane, because it collects so much

by ev1 5y ago

I'm kind of curious how Beeper will handle some of these - they claim to soon support WeChat, and emulating WeChat is a bit insane, because it collects so much data that it's a walking GDPR violation, there's no way to stop it, and we are talking things like "please repeat the numbers in chinese, then english, while looking straight into your phone" at login.

spurgu 5y ago
Uff, that sounds insane. I suppose they released those "features" gradually and people just went along.
- ev1 5y ago
  It's a Chinese chat app (that is also used for payments, thus linked to bank accounts). Getting an account more or less requires ID or similar. They go to extraordinary lengths, similar to Tiktok, to block automation, bot accounts, etc.