Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ...
by erk__ on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @01:37PM
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They do it to get around very anti competitive behaviour. WeChat pretty much have monopoly on chat in China so if you want to get into that market I guess you have to come up with some way around it. Though I agree that a button that would activate it would likely have been a better way to do it. Even if they did not do anything nefarious this really makes it look like it was.
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Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ...
by ebg13 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:42PM
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Spying on users is a dishonorable way to get around another corporate's anti-competitive behavior. Because it was not the only extremely obvious viable option (I mentioned a clearly honest obvious alternative), we have to conclude that they desire to act dishonorably.