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by polote 1955 days ago
There is no evidence that they tried to hide that. The company was created in 2020 and one of their API is not encrypted, that kind of things has probably happened to most of companies created less than a year ago
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> that kind of things has probably happened to most of companies created less than a year ago

No company gets a free pass on the implications of sacrificing privacy or security. Even if “less than a year old”.

This is serious:

“Any observer of internet traffic could easily match IDs on shared chatrooms to see who is talking to whom. For mainland Chinese users, this is troubling”

Like somehow you're the judge the jury and the executioner of said conpanies. Don't use their product.