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by oblio 2121 days ago
The things is, that's kind of how it starts.

First you copy badly, then you copy well, then you improve.

Baby steps.
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d3nj4l 2121 days ago
A monopoly doesn't have much incentive to improve, especially not one that the state is effectively enforcing.
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oblio 2121 days ago
India is a huge market. Wouldn't other local companies in other domains see how much money Jio is making and try to compete with them? Tata, etc.?
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ffpip 2121 days ago
They won't improve. I'm willing to bet on it.

They are getting into the advertising business. Advertisers and privacy/security don't go together.

India is just getting used to the internet. Massive market. Billion users.

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oblio 2121 days ago
Advertisers and security/privacy do work well together, from a certain point of view.

As Jio, if I'd clone Zoom, I would add encryption, so that only I, Jio, would be able to analyze that traffic. Same thing with WhatsApp.

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ffpip 2121 days ago
I meant security/privacy from the company in question. Jio.

e2ee in JioChat was just not even implemented. They just copied whatsapp.

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oblio 2121 days ago
That's kind of bad, but I think that for regular users, it's a non-feature. They don't care. They only care about traffic not being snooped in along the way. They will trust the messenger company.

I'd imagine JioChat is encrypted in transit, isn't it?

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ffpip 2121 days ago
Yes. I think. I have not downloaded and used it.

The reason e2ee is necessary in india is people share all things online. Especially in chat. Passports, certificates, health related stuff. We are very open online.

For example, here is a guy publishing his goverentment issued caste certificate. On twitter. https://twitter.com/BhainsdehiWale/status/118002364906923212...

They do not know that anybody can see that photo. They don't know encryption,privacy and stuff. Internet is 1-2 years old here (for the masses)

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