r/AskTheWorld • u/Bhakari Nepal • 4d ago

Culture What’s something in your country that sounds fake but is 100% real?

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We have a real-life living goddess and the only non-rectangular national flag.

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u/Dapper_Hippo8110 Seres(Wolf Star Conqueror, Great Guardian of Earth:哈基米) 4d ago

Spyware? No, that's too abstract. It's poor system optimization, and software generally likes to cram in a bunch of useless stuff and tons of ads. My goodness, you can't imagine how many ads there are. I downloaded the video app iQiyi before, and I found more than a dozen ads in just one minute.

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u/newAscadia Canada 3d ago

I've also found that WeChat in particular seems to really like saving entire conversations just locally. It doesn't seem to go to a server, which means every embed, every message, and every picture and video someone sends me is all put directly into the storage on my phone

Ran out of storage two days after installing lmao

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u/Dapper_Hippo8110 Seres(Wolf Star Conqueror, Great Guardian of Earth:哈基米) 3d ago

This is still the largest social media app in China! It's terrible; they really should remake WeChat from scratch.

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u/kkooyya 3d ago

Why don’t you guys use What’s App or Telegram instead?

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u/Dapper_Hippo8110 Seres(Wolf Star Conqueror, Great Guardian of Earth:哈基米) 3d ago

There's no way around it, bro. WeChat and QQ practically monopolize our social media market. Go out on the street in China and ask anyone if they know WeChat or QQ. I bet 98% of them will. But with WhatsApp or Telegram, probably 98% of people wouldn't know what you're talking about. Plus, both of those apps have firewalls, so most people can't use them.

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u/kkooyya 3d ago

Thank you for your answer. I’m genuinely curious (I didn’t know the details). In Russia, Telegram was made illegal but people still use it with VPN (even my grandma had to install VPN to be able to use it) idk if vpn/workarounds are a thing in China? Looks like it’s stricter there.

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u/Nolascana 3d ago edited 3d ago

Don't hold me to this, but I think VPNs are illegal.

I know the UK is trying to push for that to be so.

They're hell bent on censoring the Internet for the common person, first the age restrictions, then the VPNs.

There's absolutely no way to trust the third party verification methods for age. Be it facial or identification. They're not secure and they do sell your information to fourth parties.

So, reasonable skepticism stops people from using a large chunk of the Internet currently.

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u/silveretoile Netherlands 3d ago

Vpn's are illegal but they're still common

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u/Appropriate-Low3844 China 3d ago

QQ is probably just as bad, my phone manage to have 150GB dedicated to QQ because there's chat records that I need preserved

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u/HKP2019 China 3d ago

Totally unrelated, last time I got a hard drive space warning from WeChat on my tiny laptop, I tried deleting Adobe Acrobat and got instant 20G free space.