▲ 269 ▼ AliExpress was silently running audio in your browser to fingerprint and track your device (www.techspot.com) submitted 1 day ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/world@lemmy.world 32 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (2 children) nobody? you mean, not even the common people? what are the dangers they see? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago Business dangers from scraping / automation are basically of two types: archival record for proof mostly for legal prosecution and contract negotiation. There's a lot of really bad shit going on on Chinese web despite the great firewall of China and you can hide it in plain sight if it's ephemeral. So if I sell illegal goods but it's not archived ever no one can really prosecute me. Gray/black markets players in China just rebrand every month and get away with everything. real time data for price/trend competition. Prices and trends move incredibly fast in China, people in the west don't even understand how far ahead chinese e-commerce is, Amazon is like 10 years behind. So all that scraped info is incredibly valuable for chasing capitalism. permalink fedilink source parent [–] minfapper@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago The CCP disagreeing with your version of recorded history, probably. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago Business dangers from scraping / automation are basically of two types: archival record for proof mostly for legal prosecution and contract negotiation. There's a lot of really bad shit going on on Chinese web despite the great firewall of China and you can hide it in plain sight if it's ephemeral. So if I sell illegal goods but it's not archived ever no one can really prosecute me. Gray/black markets players in China just rebrand every month and get away with everything. real time data for price/trend competition. Prices and trends move incredibly fast in China, people in the west don't even understand how far ahead chinese e-commerce is, Amazon is like 10 years behind. So all that scraped info is incredibly valuable for chasing capitalism. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] minfapper@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago The CCP disagreeing with your version of recorded history, probably. permalink fedilink source parent