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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by scotty79 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:00PM (#42714577)
> If we played the same as China does, we'd be hacking Baidu through a vulnerability in a Microsoft web browser

We don't?

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by lenerdenator on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:42PM (#42715169)
With the goal of driving them out of the US?

I just typed https://www.baidu.com into my browser bar, hit enter, and their page loaded.

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by scotty79 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:52PM (#42716777)
Why throw out something hackable? Apparently they couldn't hack TikTok so they thrown them out.
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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by lenerdenator on Thursday January 16, 2025 @10:05AM (#42726216)
They probably could, but it's become such a pain in the ass, it's no longer worth it.

You can still go to the mobile web version; but that doesn't give the same level of access to devices and data that an app does.

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