They aren’t looking to sell you stuff or serve “more relevant ads,” they are mapping our network infrastructure and human resources to find avenues of exploitation. Maybe they don’t care about your data, but maybe you’re in some position where you might harm your country, or you might be able to help someone who could harm your country, or harm some business with competing interests in China, and because you’re using their apps, they know just how to turn you into an agent of chaos.
They aren’t looking to sell you stuff or serve “more relevant ads,” they are mapping our network infrastructure and human resources to find avenues of exploitation. Maybe they don’t care about your data, but maybe you’re in some position where you might harm your country, or you might be able to help someone who could harm your country, or harm some business with competing interests in China, and because you’re using their apps, they know just how to turn you into an agent of chaos.
They are welcome to snoop around my small town infrastructure, which, checks notes, is hooked up by Chinese routers the last few years