Wow, that sucks. I imagine government policy has a significant influence here…
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yikerman@lemmy.world 2 months agoIt still depends. I live in China and the internet here suckass. Every copy-to-China product, say taobao(Amazon), xianyu(eBay), Alipay(PayPal), WeChat(instant msg), etc. is crucial to your daily usage and mandatories an application. The API is closed and the webapp has no functionality other than a banner with “go fuck our mobile app”.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Doesn’t WeChat do more than instant messaging, though?
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yes, it steals your soul, spies on you for the cccp and sells your privacy to anyone with a buck fifty (except to you).
ptolemy@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Yes. From my experience, it is an everything app and you can pay for things instead of using alipay.
yikerman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You mean the built-in browser with horrible API? Yeah it’s used widely.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 months ago
How does it work?