Today, phone makers implement methods to distinguish a Chinese phone from another or to check if you are connected to the Chinese network. It allows them to treat a Chinese user differently from the other users.
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What's the goal of determining if a user is in China or not?
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You can restrict the features of an app or upload his data to a different server for example
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Reminds me that Meizu Music app will let you stream/download MP3s from chinese servers if you change your rom's build.prop to fake a Chinese phone. The only "good" case of distinguishing someone based on their country
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What’s the utility of such an identifier when SIM will give this info?
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Unfortunately, this happens in everything, not only in phones We didn't know America is selling data except when that happens to Americans themselves I started to wonder how little are those who are not racist in first place :(
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Whatever the country, this can't be, no company have the right to do something like this...
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