• yikerman@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    It still depends. I live in China and the internet here suckass. Every product, say taobao(Amazon), xianyu(eBay), Alipay(PayPal), WeChat(instant msg), banking, etc. that is crucial to your daily usage mandatories an application. The API is closed and the webapp has no functionality other than a banner with “go fuck our mobile app”. The only way to bypass these privacy beast apps is to live in an isolated wood cabinet with self-sufficient agriculture.

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        2 hours ago

        Yes. From my experience, it is an everything app and you can pay for things instead of using alipay.

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        2 hours ago

        You mean the built-in browser with shitty nonconsistent API? Yeah it’s used widely. Some crazy dudes even put earthquake forecast on it.

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      4 hours ago

      Wow, that sucks. I imagine government policy has a significant influence here…