Why is this app so hostile to foreigners? I can't go a day without being asked for Real name verification and now i cant make a new accout due to some new thing they implemented where your number gets banned either. Isn't having more users from all across the globe better? I mean who seriously gives up their ID number to use a social media app?
Because it's a Chinese app for the Chinese population almost exclusively that really doesn't like having foreigners on it. Having global users isn't better for it
You have to use your ID for everything, including playing online games
Had my account for years and never had this happen to me 🤷♀️ Signed up with a Canadian phone number.
It was never designed for foreigners. They made if more accessible to us probably to see if the benefits of using it as soft power would outweigh the detriments of having unregulated connections to regular westerners. I think they probably decided that the soft power was not worth it.
A real shame it turned out that way too. I was getting access to a Chinese perspective that is very rare in the west
I mean seeing how much hate and distrust of china/chinese people is here on reddit only, im not surprised.
It’s pretty much the norm in places like China and even South Korea to give your ID number to use apps, play games, etc. The app isn’t primarily for foreigners. If you want to use their apps you have to play by their rules, simple as that. Your data is constantly being tracked and sold in your own country already, no need to fearmonger more.
because the US is openly hostile to China now and so we're being punished for that. It's awful but here we are.
Hasn't happened to me and I made the account a year ago in the usa
I registered via WeChat, never need verification. US phone number.
The app was not really made for foreigners. It was made for Chinese people in China and Chinese people traveling abroad.
The TikTok ban threat made Americans outside China flock to it. But it was an app made for Chinese people within China.
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Why exactly? You and me know why America is banning tiktok... They can't control the narrative their like they do with Facebook or Instagram YouTube. etc The genocide in Gaza was being shown in its full without any kind of censorship... And daddy israel doesn't like that so the AIPAC who's holding the American politicians by the balls... Forced them into banning the app.... It's not about privacy or any of that.... Remember edward Snowden.? I rest my case.
Say it with me....because he and his oligarch buddies are getting worried Americans are waking up to the truth about the anti-China propaganda BS in Red Note and will either demand better conditions or go full socialist.