Isn’t WeChat the app that is used for everything in China? It’s not just a communication app. So yes, there is more than one reason for it. A lot of its probably required to perform so many functions, but also they are collecting everything on you too.
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.tencent.mm/latest/
It requires 71 permissions, which is pretty much full access to your device.
Holy shit. Nope. Not going there.
Why not? Beijing is lovely this time of year.
This is a huge red flag. Unless they have a strong reason to believe otherwise no one should ever install an app with permissions like that.
A huge red flag you say?
Well, it doesn’t have a hammer and sickle on it, so it should be okay, right?
Its still there, they just made it red.
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I mean it’s tencent not sure what anyone expected
Isn’t WeChat the app that is used for everything in China? It’s not just a communication app. So yes, there is more than one reason for it. A lot of its probably required to perform so many functions, but also they are collecting everything on you too.