Banned from world news at lemmy.ml for raising a concern with Rednote's permissions model
Banned from world news at lemmy.ml for raising a concern with Rednote's permissions model
> Chinese social media app RedNote, known in China as Xiaohongshu, gained nearly 3 million U.S. users in one day earlier this week as a flood of self-proclaimed “TikTok Refugees” joined, according to new data from analytics firm Similarweb. > > The Chinese-language app had about 3.4 million daily ac...
I actually even liked the app. Bruh.
Edited as per rules:
This is a post about the newly-viral in the west Chinese social media app Rednote.
I actually liked the app and even said as much, however the app prompts a permission for "Making and managing phone calls" as you can see in my first comment (linked below), I felt it needed to raise this as a potential concern as it's suspicious.
Original comment is at: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35733739/16034665 And https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35733739/16035177 And https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35733739/16035273
Original post is above the linked comments.
The potentially offending text is spread across several comments, the ban does not cite any specific comment.
Modlog is at: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=7652836
Reason: Rule 1 on World News at Lemmy.ml, which goes as such:
No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
What's even funnier is I'm a bisexual trans woman from Russia, I'm about half of those things they are banning me for being prejudiced against, a fairly regular visitor and commented on .ml, hexbear vet (also banned unrelated to this lol), actually a pretty big fan of Mao (though he made some questionable decisions) and have had a book of his quotes by my bedside for god knows how many years by now, it's my support network when I need to feel heard in rage against various bastards like landlords.
I even liked the app and said it's probably not malware in my opinion as someone with genuine qualifications and a dayjob of making such calls. I was frankly not just being not bigoted, I was pretty charitable too for a multitude of reasons, one of which is to make the tankoids at ml more receptive to it.
However I guess unless I literally mindlessly see mandarin and go soyjak over it every time it's not simpling enough. Tankies isn't even it, it's literally weabooisn for china.
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The Make an manage phone calls permission is needed to read the IMEI so that's probably why they want it. Yeah, permissions in Android are stupid.
I mean, that's terrifying that any corpo would need an IMEI, that's concerning in its own right. That's not stupid at all, I'm glad it's that way, though it could be more fine-grained ofc.
If an app has IMEI access, it could indeed make/manage calls, among other things. I would probably like it more if it were phrased along the lines of "permission to read IMEI", but that would mean noting to most users. Instead, the description of the permission is for the most impactful thing that a common user would understand (assuming they're paying attention to what permissions an app requests at all).
If an app has IMEI access, it could indeed make/manage calls
Yep, but it shouldn't, there's no reason to. That's what I mean by stupid.
They have no business reading device info.