OT: Do any you downloaded a Chinese owned app to your phone?
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Maybe? Almost everything is from known companies, but I have downloaded a few odd ones-
- one that tracks the moon because my kid's teacher assigned the class a project to map it in the sky and the moon wasn't even above the horizon until like 2am that night.
- a couple free ones that spit out random trivia and eat up a few minutes of waiting for food with bored kids.
- a free connect 4 game.
- an app that identifies any plant.
...if the Chinese are spying in me thru connect 4, they are evil! That game should stay pure and innocent.
- one that tracks the moon because my kid's teacher assigned the class a project to map it in the sky and the moon wasn't even above the horizon until like 2am that night.
- a couple free ones that spit out random trivia and eat up a few minutes of waiting for food with bored kids.
- a free connect 4 game.
- an app that identifies any plant.
...if the Chinese are spying in me thru connect 4, they are evil! That game should stay pure and innocent.
Not directly, but I have zero faith that dipshiits like elmo/zukerberg/bezos etc haven't or wouldn't simply sell the data to the ccp or anyone else for that matter. I no longer have their apps on my phone but I'm not sure that even matters?
I'm not there yet, but I get closer all the time to getting a phone that only does calls and texts
I'm not there yet, but I get closer all the time to getting a phone that only does calls and texts
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I’m sure, I mean there’s an app for that? I don’t Tik Tok nor did I download the new one but I figure at least a third of the apps on my phone originated in China. My new TV was made in China so I’m sure the app I had to download to set it up is Chinese as well.
I have Temu. I am probably placing too much faith in apple stopping the worst of the abuses, but I also don't have anything particularly sensitive about how I live my life or operate online. Nor does my phone have access to anything sensitive from work except email, so the worst case scenario is that apple lets the TEMU app access my email.
I would not download Temu on an android device. Again, maybe placing too much faith in apple to stop them from logging keystrokes and stealing my information. I definitely wouldn't do it if I were a government employee or contractor or dealt with information subject to something like HIPAA on my phone.
Apple has somewhat diversified more recently but forever all of those iPhones were made in China (majority still are) and therefore the phone is made by Chinese and software installed by Chinese workers in a Chinese factory soooooooo.
Every time you scan a QR code you potentially download malware that can export whatever is on your phone. It can redirect you to phishing sites, etc. A harmless restaurant menu QR code can include trackers. If they want your info safe good luck keeping it private.
sixpackspeak.com is Chinese owned. DS traded the rights for 2 Hisense U9Ns.
The only thing on my phone that really concerns me is a password keeper app. I have so many passwords that there’s no way I could function without it but my whole life is in that single app to the point that the Login and password is in my will.
Same here. Was at a restaurant in Kentucky back in August and asked for a menu, server said they didn't have them as he pointed to a QR code on the table. Told him I'd prefer a menu and he said again this time very gruffly they didn't have any. Another server walking by told me she would get me one and it magically appeared, and she continued to serve me per my request
If its Last Pass app, well, they've already been hacked........It's the one I have too
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I try to avoid this by not eating at places that look like they'd have a qr code menu. They have a whole vibe, don't they?
That's Boomer as hell.
I embrace it.
I was traveling through their crappy meth head impoverished little town for the first and hopefully last time in my life. I didn't want to put their crappy menu on my phone
But he probably didn't even know who actually bought the pack, since it was arranged through an agent's office in Noxapater.
That's Boomer as hell.
I am the same way and I ain't a boomer.I embrace it.
I was traveling through their crappy meth head impoverished little town for the first and hopefully last time in my life. I didn't want to put their crappy menu on my phone
My kids' schools are obsessed with them. I'm like... "just print out the goddam school supply list and put it on the goddam board and I'll take a picture of it".
I only download Chinese apps. I think it is the only way to go because I do not trust the US the government. The US is just jealous of China and used AI and deepfakes to claim some protest happen at Tiananmen Square in 89.***
Our district uses SnapConnect as 1 of seemingly 18 different ways to send info out.
When they send info on clubs/activities/programs that you need to sign up for, a QR image is included since you need to scan the QR to sign up.
SnapConnect is a overwhelmingly used as an app on a phone, like almost exclusively. So then I have to save the info as a screenshot, go into my pictures, then get the QR to pull up thru the screenshot.
Just embed a link in the message/text/email so I can press it and go to where I want to go!
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Honestly, you're right, the QR code in the email or the app is even more frustrating. It's like just because you can use this technology, doesn't mean that you should use this technology.
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