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Comment by marderfarker2 | Hacker News Reader

This is why China bans these companies long ago. Imagine handing your population’s intel on a silver platter to your adversary.

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These companies are banned for refusing to share the data they collect with the government. Essentially the Chinese government is a competitor when comes to harvesting user data, not a privacy guard.

I don’t think it is ever intended to be a privacy guard but data exfiltration prevention and admittedly to control the narrative, as does with every country including your own for obvious reasons.

Chrome is still the most popular desktop browser in China by far, and has a significant chunk of the mobile market.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/china

Does China ban any non-LinkedIn Microsoft services or Apple services? I though they didn't.

Signal is blocked in China, and I'm pretty sure it isn't handing the population's intel over to anyone.

Full disclosure I work at Google.

When you’re actively persecuting a portion of your population, why not monetise it too?

Too bad we were slow to do the same thing with all the shitty lazily-named Chinese phone manufacturers like OnePlus who have free reign to skim our devices.

One Plus, using a number and a sign, is lazily named as opposed to what? A company that's named after a misspelled number? A company named after the first two greek letters? A company named after a river in south america? A company named after fruits?

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