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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by RealStickman_ on Saturday August 22, 2020 @05:31PM (#24247422)
Apple's privacy protecting actions only apply in countries where they can go through with it. Here's one example where they can't protect your privacy. [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by fossuser on Saturday August 22, 2020 @05:45PM (#24247513)
Yeah I'm with you there, I find western companies making exceptions for China pretty unethical and upsetting: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html

I think it's wrong and something they shouldn't do.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by tomcam on Sunday August 23, 2020 @06:17AM (#24250882)
That would require actual patriotism from these companies. They have repeatedly demonstrate by playing (legal) games with taxes and by having Chinese slave kids create their products that it is simply not of interest to them. QED
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