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Re:Notes on China by MisterTea on Sunday December 29, 2024 @04:25PM (#42543328)
> Curious what led to the decision to use "burner" devices,

When visiting you are required to install a tracking app. At that point your phone is considered compromised. So you bring a burner that gets infected instead and you toss afterwards.

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Re:Notes on China by 1659447091 on Sunday December 29, 2024 @04:38PM (#42543496)
> When visiting you are required to install a tracking app

Do you have details on this? I visited a little before Covid went down and that was not the case at the time. Been wanting to go back before my visa expires

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Re:Notes on China by olalonde on Sunday December 29, 2024 @04:37PM (#42543480)
Not sure where you got that information from but that's wrong. You're not required to install any app.
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Re:Notes on China by MisterTea on Sunday December 29, 2024 @05:58PM (#42544293)
I spoke to someone who traveled there post COVID in 2022. They started they had to install a tracker app, perhaps COVID tracking? Perhaps I am misremembering something.
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Re:Notes on China by olalonde on Sunday December 29, 2024 @06:16PM (#42544450)
At one point, there was a WeChat mini-app with a health-related form that needed to be filled out. However, a paper version was also available, and it's no longer required.
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Re:Notes on China by p_j_w on Monday December 30, 2024 @09:35PM (#42555821)
I got back from China earlier this month. I was never required to install any sort of app.
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