Comment on Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple and Google app stores still offer China-based VPNs.

• Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because the US is worse in every quantifiable way

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• eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  thats not what they said did they? they said they are more concerned about American companies harvesting their data as they live in Europe and don’t have as much affinity to China.

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  • percent@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    thats not what they said did they?

    Is it not? They said they’re “more concerned” with American companies harvesting data. Doesn’t that mean that, given the choice between the US and China harvesting their data, they’d choose China because it concerns them less? Did I misunderstand it?

    they said they are more concerned about American companies harvesting their data as they live in Europe and don’t have as much affinity to China.

    Actually, they didn’t say this part:

    and don’t have as much affinity to China.

    They answered my question with a more specific explanation though, and now I understand. In their position, I’d probably choose China too.

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    • eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure yeah I could be wrong. If America scares them more than China it’s a major turning point because they are European.

      What I initially got from their comment: They are more concerned about actually real threats in their life like Google, Meta, or Apple which are American and are probably what they are using at work and outside of work given they live in Europe. They are less concerned about china because they don’t use chinese phones daily or hangout in weChat (I hope).

      Where I can of course be wrong about this: They are actually using Tiktok and don’t care about the possible spying. They could be using chinese tech and simply not know. main concern is if they are on some tech stack at work or their ISP has equipment from chinese companies known to phone home.

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• febra@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because China doesn’t have as much influence in Europe as the US does. Besides that, there’s a higher chance of US companies sharing data with European governments than Chinese companies doing so.

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  • percent@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ah, yeah that makes a lot of sense. Thanks. I’d probably lean towards China too in that case, if forced to choose.

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