MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes

Post by jesterson » Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 7:04 AM UTC

gkbrk wrote: post #75

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I recall there were quite a few experiments where people use certain keywords heavily just to get closely related ads later on. I can totally relate my experience with it as well. Of course it is inconclusive - but if there is an incentive, management of big companies will venture into it. And chinese management is no different from western ones to that matter.

They don't pick the keywords uniformly randomly from a list of all keywords though. They think they randomly picked something that popped up in their mind, but those keywords are either - stuff they saw online recently — ads or otherwise, which put the keywords in their mind - or stuff they were already interested in recently Not hard to imagine targeting algorithms picking up on either of these

Post by jesterson » Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 7:07 AM UTC

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I am not sure where hyperbole is - if your believe it is "fake news", it's your choice. Do chinese apps make use of all data they can access? Absolutely. Do western apps make use of all data they can access? Absolutely. Both concepts are evil. Talking one is evil while dropping off the other is skew of discussion towards vilifying one side and omitting the subject.

China and Chinese companies flaunt every single law that at all hinders them, IP law being the typical example. The EU has the Privacy Shield agreement with the USA. Such an agreement with China would be effectively impossible, since even if it existed, they'd simply ignore it. People criticise Five Eyes, and for good reason, but it's existence at least means that intelligence agencies are willing to follow domestic…

Post by nottorp » Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 7:22 AM UTC

jesterson wrote: post #24

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I hear this theory being claimed so much, but I don't see any real evidence for it; we have routers that you can monitor traffic on, we have microphone use indicators on mobile, and I would imagine it would be pretty clear if an app was uploading audio with even very basic monitoring tools. Correct me if I'm wrong, however. I'm not denying that a lot of data is likely surreptitiously collected, but I'm talking microp…

I recall there were quite a few experiments where people use certain keywords heavily just to get closely related ads later on. I can totally relate my experience with it as well. Of course it is inconclusive - but if there is an incentive, management of big companies will venture into it. And chinese management is no different from western ones to that matter.

Post by anilakar » Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 8:19 AM UTC

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The new Delta Force is made in China nowadays and apparently scans your whole hdd (for anti cheat).

For security, yo.

Post by 63stack » Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 8:47 AM UTC

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> is listening to you and siphoning all data on your local network to China. How is it any different from western apps listening to you and siphoning all data on your local network to 3 letter agencies?

There's a massive difference between having a country spying on it's own citizen versus having an adversarial country doing it. The three-letter agencies would likely not be trying to sabotage or destroy their own country's economy and global standing for one.