Wechat has no ads because the government uses it to spy on almost everything you are doing from paying a parking ticket to purchasing groceries. It has replaced cash in many areas of China.
It's also tightly controlled and censored.
I would much rather have advertisers trying to sell me something than a totalitarian government using it to control my life.
Fair enough, but also keep in mind that what constitutes a crime changes over time and culture. The law is also vulnerable to interpretation, for better or for worse, by those who enforce it.
They have a gaming company, sure - with an animation studio, TV production studios, a record label. And apparently the defacto means of currency exchange in some areas?
Imagine if Paypal and NBC-Universal merged with EA. Their animation is even featured on some of the same gray-area fan-translation sites as anime. Renewable energy? Big Data? The list goes on...
That theyre more established in many fields displays the maturity of a lasting platform from a lasting company. Theyre not trading the credibility of their user-facing featureset (facebook events!) for a quick upstream-centric cash grab.
It feels backwards to me personally that the bank-owned social network would have so few cash-grabs relative to their counterparts. But then again, I live in the West.
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I would much rather have advertisers trying to sell me something than a totalitarian government using it to control my life.
Serious nonsense and ridiculousness. A typical example is there are so many financial frauds by it.
BTW brain is important.
They have a gaming company, sure - with an animation studio, TV production studios, a record label. And apparently the defacto means of currency exchange in some areas?
Imagine if Paypal and NBC-Universal merged with EA. Their animation is even featured on some of the same gray-area fan-translation sites as anime. Renewable energy? Big Data? The list goes on...
That theyre more established in many fields displays the maturity of a lasting platform from a lasting company. Theyre not trading the credibility of their user-facing featureset (facebook events!) for a quick upstream-centric cash grab.
It feels backwards to me personally that the bank-owned social network would have so few cash-grabs relative to their counterparts. But then again, I live in the West.