“Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows”
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#2For those unaware, QQ is a desktop IM service by Tencent
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#3I wonder how much you get away with posting/publicizing RE of these things on Chinese blogs as a PRC citizen.
I would be very careful.
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#4How does this work? does this run inside the browser views inside the QQ app? Does Instagram do the same?
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#5If China wants to use protectionism to wage digital economy warfare, let's respond in kind. No more Wechat, TikTok, Alipay, or League of Legends or Valorant, until China gives equal treatment to foreign internet firms.
Note: Valorant installs a kernel driver as part of the "anti-cheat" system; described by many as a rootkit: https://www.osnews.com/story/131665/riot-games-maker-of-leag...
Valorant's parent company is Tencent, the same company mentioned in this tweet.
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#6How does this work? does this run inside the browser views inside the QQ app? Does Instagram do the same?
Chromium based browser save history in sqlite file
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#7How does this work? does this run inside the browser views inside the QQ app? Does Instagram do the same?
It just reads the history file off of the disk directly
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#8If China wants to use protectionism to wage digital economy warfare, let's respond in kind. No more Wechat, TikTok, Alipay, or League of Legends or Valorant, until China gives equal treatment to foreign internet firms. Note: Valorant installs a kernel driver as part of the "anti-cheat" system; described by many as a rootkit: https://www.osnews.com/story/131665/riot-games-maker-of-leag... Valorant's parent company is…
This behavior isn’t unique to Chinese companies.
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#9If China wants to use protectionism to wage digital economy warfare, let's respond in kind. No more Wechat, TikTok, Alipay, or League of Legends or Valorant, until China gives equal treatment to foreign internet firms. Note: Valorant installs a kernel driver as part of the "anti-cheat" system; described by many as a rootkit: https://www.osnews.com/story/131665/riot-games-maker-of-leag... Valorant's parent company is…
To clone Chinese OSS, you need WeChat account or OTP+Phone in China. This feels totally against the principles of good faith in OSS dev. They can clone and take advantage of the rest of the world’s efforts while returning nothing back. Asshole, is the term for such entities.
To be fair, some cool Chinese developers do have repos on GitHub. They’re not the majority though.
Edit: Hold on folks, I need to find source of this.
Edit2: I am pretty sure I was using Zhaodao.