Why is it only foreign software is fingered as malware? I have no doubt this is extraordinarily malicious software, but so was google ads, so was facebook, so were the app stores on our phones.
TEMU Is Cleverly Hidden Spyware That Poses an Urgent Security Threat to U.S.
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#52Why is everyone using this site? What's wrong with aliexpress?
The issues around AliExpress are essentially related to shipping. It takes too long and they don’t enforce the delivery times and the seller can send you the wrong thing or if you want to return it you get to pay the return shipping back to China. You have to understand that 7 day delivery means it might show up in a few months and only buy from high quality sellers. That’s why it has such a bad reputation.
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#54> TEMU is estimated ( Link ) to be losing $30 per order. Its ad spending and shipping costs (1-2 weeks from China, expedited to U.S. delivery) are astronomical. One is left wondering how this business could ever be profitable. This has literally been every startup in SV for the last 15 years - aggressively lose money aquiring users when new and then when you've killed the competition, start making money. The only thi…
> This has literally been every startup in SV for the last 15 years
That is literally not true.
> But I stand by my previous statement that literally nothing in this article is actual evidence
I read the article. Some hand-wavey bits, yes, and some (probably) legal-cautious phrasing that you highlighted (eg the 'we believe' qualifier), but overall I find the evidence they've laid out to be highly compelling.
What evidence would you demand to concur that this is dangerous / spyware / a risk?
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#55Interesting. Recently ordered from them for giggles just because the pricing was crazy yet people seem to be getting their stuff. Even mentioned to a friend that something feels very off commercially here - like something is aggressively subsidised. Also Noticed that they were specifically pushing in app purchases hard with discounts etc. …but didn’t connect the dots between those two odd things.
"Is Temu Ethical? No, Temu is not an ethical brand. A U.S. Congressional Report from June 2023 raised alarming concerns about Temu and Shein’s potential links to forced labor. The report highlighted an “extremely high risk” of products on Temu being associated with forced labor, and the committee expressed particular worry about the exploitation of U.S. de minimis provisions by both companies. The de minimis threshol…
Are Walmart and Amazon just as bad? I've heard differing opinions on whether it's like Slaves R Us, or if it's just like anywhere else, where there's probably a few slave labor produced goods included.
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#56A few thoughts.
I’d honestly estimate 20% of the ads I see on websites now are TEMU. I’ve never clicked on one, and will never sign up. If they stop advertising the ad market will feel the waves.
The products being advertised to me are WILDLY irrelevant. It feels like they’re just shooting a shotgun into the air.
It looks like they’re selling only the cheapest stuff, like cutting the middleperson of the FIVE CAPITAL LETTER brand names that use Amazon Marketplace. As much as I don’t trust a plunger or measuring cup from HYYNA, I trust TEMU quality even less.
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#57> TEMU is estimated ( Link ) to be losing $30 per order. Its ad spending and shipping costs (1-2 weeks from China, expedited to U.S. delivery) are astronomical. One is left wondering how this business could ever be profitable. This has literally been every startup in SV for the last 15 years - aggressively lose money aquiring users when new and then when you've killed the competition, start making money. The only thi…
How is this garbage reply the first one I'm seeing?
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#58> TEMU is estimated ( Link ) to be losing $30 per order. Its ad spending and shipping costs (1-2 weeks from China, expedited to U.S. delivery) are astronomical. One is left wondering how this business could ever be profitable. This has literally been every startup in SV for the last 15 years - aggressively lose money aquiring users when new and then when you've killed the competition, start making money. The only thi…
Welcome to the world of anonymous short seller hit pieces. These people are scum and they’re not even good at what they do. 99% of the time just make up a bunch of sensationalist bullshit. They are the new bottom feeders of the securities world, today’s version of boiler room folks.
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#59Scariest thing here is the `write_external_storage`. Is this just going to install trojan horse things onto SD cards/memory sticks? The time is coming for Apple to support iCloud private relay for all 3rd party apps. Ideally nothing is leaving the phone without it shortly.
Sounds kinda awful, what if the relay goes down at an important time? You just know they're going to do something like banning LAN connections too unless it's on some special whitelist so nobody can ever make a true P2P app.
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#60A few thoughts. I’d honestly estimate 20% of the ads I see on websites now are TEMU. I’ve never clicked on one, and will never sign up. If they stop advertising the ad market will feel the waves. The products being advertised to me are WILDLY irrelevant. It feels like they’re just shooting a shotgun into the air. It looks like they’re selling only the cheapest stuff, like cutting the middleperson of the FIVE CAPITAL…
Sorry you feel that way. I’ve been declared the “Chosen One for Massachusetts” by Temu!