Re:Permission.site
by dheera on Friday March 26, 2021 @01:27PM
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> South Korea was actually there for a time. If you wanted to spend money online, various regulations meant running ActiveX was a requirement.
This playbook is happening again in China now. Not with ActiveX but with WeChat and AliPay. It's increasingly difficult to live there without either of the two apps and I think it does not bode well for the future for society to be reliant on two private corporation apps for basic needs, in the same way that it was not a good idea for the world to be dependent on ActiveX 20 years ago.
This playbook is happening again in China now. Not with ActiveX but with WeChat and AliPay. It's increasingly difficult to live there without either of the two apps and I think it does not bode well for the future for society to be reliant on two private corporation apps for basic needs, in the same way that it was not a good idea for the world to be dependent on ActiveX 20 years ago.