There is no question over the last 10 years the quality and production level of Chinese developed games has seem to sky rocket. Many of these games even being free to play. But honestly I haven’t played a single one. For the same reasons I refused to download TikTok.
China is a well known surveillance state. I worry downloading and playing these games especially on a PC or mobile phone would just be a huge privacy risk.
Am I being to paranoid ? Are there some regulations I’m not aware of that might protect me anyway ?
I feel like I’m missing out on some really high quality visually striking games because of it
Yes.
Ummm if you’re really serious about privacy wouldn’t you have already switched to GrapheneOS and Linux? Like people who actually care about this stuff avoid Google, Microsoft… and proprietary software like the plague
If surveillance is the worry shouldn’t that same skepticism apply beyond just China? I dunno it kinda feels less about privacy and more about a specific distrust, you know?
Proprietary software is fine (if sandboxed)
There is no precedent of China meddling on someone elses business, let alone a random civilian, so not only it is crazy to assume so it’s also inherently racist. The US does have precedent of it for what it’s worth yet you’re not distrustful of them. You’re a victim of state sponsored propaganda.
Yeah what the hell are they gonna do with the data, realize Americans are inconsolably insane? I hope so!
The idea of misconduct in Chinese companies being worse than the USA is nakedly insane, they haven’t had a breast milk theft incident AFAIK. Looking forward to the same idiotic assumptions about Vietnam’s games. Shit is booming, give it a decade tho. Actually all the apps here are domestic now it rules. Vietnam & China’s biggest privacy failings show themselves when I browse electronics for an HDMI adapter and it only works for Windows, or the aforementioned apps use Google Play services. That is getting better though! Google is on thin ice this whole region, & Windows on its way out in China
I remember when tiktok was being advertised as something to fill the vine vacuum and it looked cringe as hell and just obvious spyware and I thought there’s no way anyone would install that.
Here we are.
Also it’s hilarious that Microsoft were finally on a winner with vine and they just scrapped it.
Um no, any propreitary game with an internet connection and privileged access to your computer can and will spy on you, your goal should be sandboxing, limiting permissions and information access and using a zero trust policy.
What country a proprietary application is from doesn’t matter, any private company can and will spy on you for profits, be it Chinese or American, even better if the courts are corrupt and run on cash.
The US can just as easily launch a centralized surveillance campaign, and likely does through the NSA, do not trust any proprietary application just because it’s from a “civilized” or “developed” country, they are but the same as long as they are chasing profits.
Yes you are crazy. China doesn’t give a shit about you, if they really want your data they can just buy it from your government or one of the many corporations that are all verifiably spying on you and selling your data.
Yes. They’re state-sponsored propaganda, but unless you can identify legitimate security risks, you’re just operating on “feelings.”
I hate liberals so much it’s unreal.
Im not meant to harbor hatred in my heart, but here we are living in the hater multiverse. When in Rome…
China isn’t any more of a surveillance state than the US and Europe already. Why would a Chinese game be any worse than the ways you’re spied on by people that can actually do something with your data? Wherever you live, assuming it isn’t China, your data is already being collected by people far more capable of doing something about it if they found something they didn’t like, and far more interested in doing so.
Let’s face it, the CPC almost certainly doesn’t care about you, and it would be better for the PRC to have your data than your local government and corporations, that do care far more about you. I don’t see why fearing a developing socialist state so much makes any sense.
My question for the yankees who worry about “Chinese technology spying” on them: Can the CPC send death squads to your house?
Paranoid? No. Racist.
If you were really paranoid, you’d trust no games, regardless of origin country.
Bingo
Chinese government uses all tools at its disposal to broaden their range of influence in tech, including tracking and monitoring. Avoiding products backed by chinese government doesn’t make one racist, the same as avoiding products with NSA influence doesn’t make one anti-american.
Only avoiding Chinese products while giving NSA ones a parse does make them racist though
They didn’t say anything about USA products though, that’s your assumption
Edit: actually in the comment OP said he avoids things that can have ties to NSA as well
I don’t know what led you to believe this person is racist, but this is a massive leap in logic. There are plenty of reasons a person could be wary of the Chinese government that don’t involve them hating the race of its people. Please be more considerate in the future.
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I have a feeling this person has never considered doubting Western countries. Whether they know it or not, it’s the result of Western exceptionalism. The average Westerner believes their countries and institutions exist for good, and their enemies are inherently evil
The efficient propaganda, when the lambs can’t even say they were fed with it their entire lives
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But not just China…
yes
I would say you are not paranoid, but the reasons you have equally apply to non Chinese Games and social networks.
So to be consistent, either not play Games and get off of social networks, or do it.
Do you not trust American made games?
I don’t trust anything that goes online
