Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)
I truly don't understand, from a security and privacy perspective, why would anyone outside of China would voluntarily choose to run closed-source software from a company that's subject to domestic laws and regulations in China. The MSS is no joke.<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=china+mss+data+sharing" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=china+mss...</a><p>This is the same reason that Zoom is banned at my workplace and many other partner companies.<p>You've actually got two problems here. One is the commercial advertising/for-profit related data sharing problem described in the article. The second is that Xiaomi, as a company with that collected data resident in China on its servers, is obliged to provide a pipeline for a copy of their database to the MSS upon request.