If you are serious with this relationship (or you expect to still have Chinese partners in the future), I strongly recommend you buy a separate device for all the Chinese spywares required to maintain communication with your partner(s). At some point you will have to enter China, and it is best that you take only this device with you into it then.
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2024
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Why don't you use a better messaging app? If not matrix, then signal? Even telegram is better compared to both wechat and sms.
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use https://f-droid.org/packages/com.oasisfeng.island.fdroid/ (work profile) to isolate. and use a pay as you go number to register (rather than you commonly used one). do not grant any permission. set background restriction to strict. force stop it after every use. i think that would be enough
And you're not concerned about Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta or even the NSA?
Weird perspective for someone using Google services lmao.
Android does not mean Google necessarily.
He talks about using stock android in one of the comments.
Just tell her there's email. If she insists on WeChat... Maybe she's... err...
Probably an iPhone user.
Or otherwise concerned about using an app banned by the state.
Yeah she's an iPhone user. And she wants to use WeChat because it's like second nature to Chinese people. It's as normal to them as email is to us in the west. They are totally desensitized to the digital privacy concerns.
She has WhatsApp as well, but it's not set up properly on her phone so she doesn't get notifications for it. Plus I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work if she traveled back to China.
banned by the state
Forgot that part... It's crazy that a bunch of lizard brains ruling an idiotic party can literally dictate people's life.