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If 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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QQ comes with a bundled QQProtect.exe that can't be killed, QQ simply refuses to run without it.
Can't you sandbox both though?
Looks like the author deleted the tweet out of fear. > I just noticed that someone linked my previous tweet on HN. Sorry I have to delete it in case something come after me https://twitter.com/CodeColorist/status/1350798973431283712?...
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The article says "no, QQ is not stealing your history, you just need to disable the rule and it stops". I guess that's how they cover for themselves.
Nowhere does the article say that. Please don't spread made-up bullshit like this.
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Nowhere does the article say that. Please don't spread made-up bullshit like this.
Maybe you could consider that I didn't just make that up. I have a Chinese person with me, albeit non tech person, that read it for me. I could have added that "apprently it says this", but your phrasing is uncalled for.
If 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…
Apart from a lot of other issues mentioned here, this looks to me for a good argument of app sandboxing. It is a thing on mobile but not much on the desktop.
tracing and blocking QQ/TIM from reading browsing history.
Apart from a lot of other issues mentioned here, this looks to me for a good argument of app sandboxing. It is a thing on mobile but not much on the desktop.
No, please no. Make sand-boxing an optional feature the user has control over. Sort of like containerized tabs in Firefox. Not all apps have legitimate reasons for accessing your hard drive, but I'd argue that 90% of them that do, really need to. Let the user decide.