China dev fined 3 yrs’ salary for VPN use - eviltoast
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    The cleaner feature in Google files is nowhere as sophisticated, it just cleans the cache, while the Chinese cleaners download a definition file to know which files are to be removed and which not.

    As for Samsung, I don’t know, remember that the apps are dropping that fake images as a security exploit without having explicit permission to do that. Maybe Samsung is blocking that exploit.

    Regarding health coverage, it definitely depends on the employer, if you are unemployed and didn’t pay the optional premium, you won’t be cured as well. In other capitalist European countries you would be cured the same way for free no matter if you are homeless, unemployed or a billionaire. I lived several months in Beijing and I never saw an ambulance on the streets. Asked around, I always got the same response “ambulance too expensive, we go hospital by taxi”. Seems weird that a “communist” country doesn’t share resources with the comrades.

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      Or it’s actually just some benign thing because you haven’t posted any evidence which says that the .gsX files are even malicious or caused by Chinese apps. I’ve been googling for it and haven’t found any serious documentation about it. A reddit post linking it with Hotels.com (American company, lmao) and an LTT thread linking it to Ladaza (a Filipino app). In the absence of more and better proof, I’m not even convinced that it’s an exploit.

      And again. You claimed that ALL Chinese apps ask for IMEI permissions. No proof of that either. It’s all just made up horse shit to justify your vibes based racism about how Chinese people can’t code.

      Regarding health coverage, it definitely depends on the employer, if you are unemployed and didn’t pay the optional premium, you won’t be cured as well. In other capitalist European countries you would be cured the same way for free no matter if you are homeless, unemployed or a billionaire. I lived several months in Beijing and I never saw an ambulance on the streets. Asked around, I always got the same response “ambulance too expensive, we go hospital by taxi”. Seems weird that a “communist” country doesn’t share resources with the comrades.

      None of this is consistent with the link I provided so it’s your word and anecdote against the professionally prepared page and its supporting citations.

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        It’s not that they can’t code, it’s that they’re coding in isolation. They don’t have experience in using Android apps designed for foreign countries because they’re literally blocked to do so. They see all apps are spyware in disguise and think it’s totally ok to do so.

        It’s not a coincidence that Google play banned pinduoduo because it used forbidden ways to track users. Or the DJI app, banned from Google play too.

        This policy only hurt themselves and it’s undeniable. Like that time Tencent accidentally included literal malware in an iOS app because a dev downloaded an infected version of xcode from a random Chinese website instead of apple.com (accessing any website hosted outside the country is super slow)

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        PS read this: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-05/03/content_25014998.htm

        A meter to calculate how much you need to pay for a life saving vehicle is something you would expect in the USA, not in a “communist” country. Where is the standard of equality between all the citizens if only the rich can afford to get to the hospital? Isn’t this capitalism? For reference, the article mentions 3600 yuan the shandong woman had to pay to transport her father to the hospital equals to 2 months of salary.