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I'm curious if, as @thefalken brought up [0], this is illegal under the GDPR, given that it's a hidden opt out and should apply to EU citizenry with browser language set to Chinese. [0] https://mobile.twitter.com/thefalken/status/1183445477645312...
The code is checking the region part of the locale, which is CN for china. The language code for chinese is zh.
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Downvoters who think that might be too much data don't know about Bloom filters.
Bloom filters are likely useless in this situation - following facts for phishing only: 1. Phishing sites have a lifecycle of about 15 hours. 2. Most malicious links are hidden within benign domains. 3. About 400,000 phishing sites are created each month. From: https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/4-eye-opening-facts-abou... I haven't run the numbers, but I am guessing that a clientside solution would have a lot of ba…
Why did you assume I'd not know about false positives?
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This is incorrect. en_GB doesn't mean you're in or from Great Britain. It means you want the device to show English as it is used in Great Britain, with extraneous "u"s and rearranged month and day. A user in the US can request that locale instead of en_US if that is the language they prefer. Locale is for localization of the interface, not for telling where you are from. See the Australian English example in https:/…
What should they do?
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This is incorrect. en_GB doesn't mean you're in or from Great Britain. It means you want the device to show English as it is used in Great Britain, with extraneous "u"s and rearranged month and day. A user in the US can request that locale instead of en_US if that is the language they prefer. Locale is for localization of the interface, not for telling where you are from. See the Australian English example in https:/…
> This is incorrect. en_GB doesn't mean you're in or from Great Britain. You misinterpreted. "Region" is a setting in iOS. But iOS "Region" has nothing to do with the "region" part of a locale. Setting your iOS "Region" to "Great Britain" and setting your "Locale" to "English (Great Britain)" are separate things. "Region" is just what iOS happens to call a completely distinct thing. If you like, to lessen your confus…
You most likely would. Google's service will be unreachable from within China. If it didn't switch providers, you would have no Safe Browsing protection. The key thing is to obtain consent from the user the first time this happens.
Took a quick look, and this appears to be enabled if [NSLocale.currentLocale.countryCode isEqualToString:@"CN"]: char ____ZN7Backend6Google12SSBUtilities24shouldConsultWithTencentEv_block_invoke_2(void * _block) { rax = [NSLocale currentLocale]; rax = [rax retain]; r14 = [[rax countryCode] retain]; [rax release]; rbx = [r14 isEqualToString:@"CN"] != 0x0 ? 0x1 : 0x0; [r14 release]; rax = rbx; return rax; } Update: the…
> if [NSLocale.currentLocale.countryCode isEqualToString:@"CN"]: So even for US and EU based users the data is send to Tencent just because they enabled Chinese language support? Who programmed that?
But there is valid criticism to be had that Apple should be signposting more visibly the differences between its settings for CN and outside CN.
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URL to same code search on Sourcegraph (which works): https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=repo%3Awebkit%2Fwebkit+malw... (Disclaimer: I am the Sourcegraph CEO.)
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The code is checking the region part of the locale, which is CN for china. The language code for chinese is zh.
“en_US” is “American English”, not “English on a Phone in america”. The alternative “zh-*” codes are SG, TW, or HK. It’s checking if the user has their region set to “Mainland Chinese”, not That their phone is “Chinese on a phone in China”.
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ma...
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iOS has separate region and language settings. Quick look at Apple docs suggests that this is the former.
No, it's the latter. In NSLocale, "region" is a subtype of language, as in a regional dialect, not an independent dimension. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nslocal... https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ma...
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That is exactly my experience too. My parents just kept calling me when they were using Android phones. I bought them iPhone to get my free time back.
There is not much difference there. iPhone might be more confusing for people who are used to android.
Rooting your phone is all well and good if you know what you're doing. It's not so good when you don't, and I'm your tech support phone call.
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Firefox downloads a big blob of unsafe URLs and checks against that, last I saw.
No, Firefox uses the exactly same Safe Browsing protocol. In fact, the protocol was co-developed by Google and Mozilla.