The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website – with no identity verification (for now at least)

  • MonkRome
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    14 days ago

    8 trackers from 6 different companies, hard pass.

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          13 days ago

          At this point I’d prefer the Chinese government to track me over US companies. The Chinese government won’t let the US government access its databases, whereas Google will.

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        13 days ago

        they probably mean, 8 trackers loaded in the frontend. hundreds are still possible by selling backend collected data, they just don’t get direct access.

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          13 days ago

          Yes, just what aurora app store detects loaded in the app.

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        13 days ago

        YouTube just has google firebase analytics (which I also don’t want)