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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Legitimate apps do use the same permission due to Google's screwed up way of handling permissions.
Basically, apps need to access to
READ_PHONE_STATEin order to know whether you're in the middle of a phone call or not, to be able to mute sounds or notifications when you are.This falls under the general phone permission tree, showing as wanting to make phone calls by itself. Yes, it's stupid, but you can thank Google for that one.
Not saying you got rightfully banned though.
Basically, apps need to access to
READ_PHONE_STATEin order to know whether you're in the middle of a phone call or not, to be able to mute sounds or notifications when you are.Which no other apps do this way. Spotify is able to mute itself just fine without any permissions to "Make and Manage Phone Calls", and the OS handles muting notifications for when you're in a phone call.
Google is absolutely not to blame here at all.
This is freakishly insidious misinformation you're spreading there, bud, because you're on the surface correct, but yet willfully ignoring reality. Why?
It could be outdated information, so I'd be happy to learn and correct it based on the facts available.
This is freakishly insidious misinformation
Please don't assume malice immediately, it makes for a terrible conversation.
I mean, just install Spotify or any of the other mainstream apps and let's see if they prompt for that permission or not? It's not as if this is impossible to find out. I do not want to assume malice, but I also struggle to understand how you could even genuinely believe the things you do?