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.

Fucking bastards. I don't even know what beef they have with the community and why, but using THAT method to get them to shut down is nothing short of despicable. What absolute scum.

Worse. They think it's useful.

You might want to sign up with astrill. Greetings from China, we've been dealing with this shit for decades.

If we want to start our own traditions, why the hell are we copying reddit yet again?

At this point I'm wondering whether people will stick to reddit even if they pull a 180 on api pricing and all. The whole smear campaign against Apollo and others just underlines they can't be trusted.

The idea of a non-profit holding sounds great, but what about collateral damage if shit really hit the fan? Would it not be smarter to have a separate entity for each platform? They could all have essentially the same statutes, boards, directors etc. etc., so in case if one really got under heavy fire, the others wouldn't be affected? I know it means more admin work and probably also requires some governing policies with regards to the funding distribution, but might be cleaner in the end.

Only in India.

Saved you a click.

Jerboa asks for 0.18 to be installed, but works with 0.17.4 mostly without issues.

You mean, only on Android TV. They don't have a phone app, and explicitly stated they are not interested in developing one.

Username checks out.

Then they'll install the Linux version. People here are so indoctrinated, they like it.

It's still in development. Couple more days.

Sure. Foreigners aren't really sanctioned though, that's more of a risk for the locals. But even then usually only if they want to get someone disappeared and don't have anything substantial against them.

Um, no. It flags it for the user to review and urges a removal, that you can ignore. That's it.

I live in China and have a Xiaomi phone as a work device, and use all sorts of apps the powers that be don't like on it.

Neither of which supports Chinese, so that's useless for any actual users of Sogou.

Muss doch nicht unbedingt auf jeder Instanz und in jeder Sprache diskutiert werden, solange es gefixt wird.

Nah they do a good job. They are having intrusive popups asking you to subscribe to their paid tier for scheduled searches and real time protection, but if you know what you want/need, the free version is alright.

Most FOSS apps are equal to or better than proprietary software when it comes to functionality, but look like they were coded in the stone age.

Most casual users value GUI over everything. And while I personally can overlook shitty user interfaces on apps I use once in a blue moon, for a social media app I'm using daily, that's a no go.

Didn't you post it this morning already? I swear I've seen the exact same content earlier.