this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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I live in China and this software is cancerous not just in the encryption failure, it also nestles into a computer like a trojan. Creates 2 fallback installations and will reinstall itself after removal if you reboot in between, unless you get rid of all 3 installations at once, where they are deliberately trying to obfuscate the uninstall button (triple confirmation, swapping the confirm/cancel buttons and button background colors, etc.).
It's a nasty piece of crap that come preloaded on any phone (android, at least) and Windows-PC here.
Do people generally try to circumvent it? Are they too scared to uninstall it? Or do they just not care?
My guess is that it might either be more accurate in predictions or some additional convenience factors that makes typing this typographic language much easier and faster lol.
Or people are also simply used to it since it's everywhere.