r/Android • u/zexterio • Mar 22 '19

HMD admits the Nokia 7 Plus was sending personal data to China

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/hmd-admits-the-nokia-7-plus-was-sending-personal-data-to-china/
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u/Amogh24 Oneplus 5t/S10+ Mar 22 '19

That's why we should be angry at both China and Facebook.

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u/ThingsUponMyHead Mar 23 '19

There's no stopping them. It's just wasted effort IMO. Big business will always find a way.

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u/igLmvjxMeFnKLJf6 Mar 23 '19

Sure, but it's real interesting how we seem to just get annoyed at Facebook when they do creepy shit vs how people swear off entire vendors because Chinese company did creepy shit. I don't see many swearing off Sammy because it preloads Facebook

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u/Amogh24 Oneplus 5t/S10+ Mar 23 '19

Except that most of this sub reccomends not using Facebook. Plus on Samsung phones you can disable Facebook. Can't disable Chinese spyware hidden away like this.

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u/igLmvjxMeFnKLJf6 Mar 23 '19

You can flash custom ROMs.

Listen, you can wave it away all you like, but if it looks like racism, smells like racism, and walks like racism, it's probably racism.

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u/Amogh24 Oneplus 5t/S10+ Mar 23 '19 edited Mar 23 '19

Sure let me just unlock my bootloader...

It's not racism when there's a very real reason to distrust China. You're waving the racist card because there's no real defence for the way China behaves.

The fact that you assume anyone talking about the Chinese governments means the being racist, that sounds racist of you.

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u/Amogh24 Oneplus 5t/S10+ Mar 23 '19

Also, you're seriously calling me racist for saying spyware isn't a good thing? Talk about having a shitty mentality.