Am I crazy not to trust Chinese developed games ?

There is no question over the last 10 years the quality and production level of Chinese developed games has seem to sky rocket. Many of these games even being free to play. But honestly I haven’t played a single one. For the same reasons I refused to download TikTok.

China is a well known surveillance state. I worry downloading and playing these games especially on a PC or mobile phone would just be a huge privacy risk.

Am I being to paranoid ? Are there some regulations I’m not aware of that might protect me anyway ?

I feel like I’m missing out on some really high quality visually striking games because of it

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[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 35 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Even if you thought that the Chinese government was going to the trouble of spying on you, what would they be doing with that data? You don't live in China! Every single thing you touch in the United States is a privacy nightmare because of the US Government and tech corporations, and they're in direct control of your every waking minute. What's China going to do to you?

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I always get "you think they don't try and influence people?" like they're going to somehow forcefeed Trump ads to your phone or something. Hexbear shows up in your Tiktok feed. Putting aside that Xi doesn't really like Trump because he's unpredictable.

They give up when I say just use an adblocker lol.

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