Rainbow Colors System

RAIN - THEY/THEM + ARO/ACE - NONBINARY

[dankmemeuniversity]

[mizoguchi]

[treethymes]

[anxietyproblem]

[ghostpalmtechnique]

Don’t download Tiktok.

https://twitter.com/d1rtydan/status/1277081198624337920

[squareallworthy]

From the linked Reddit thread:

So I can personally weigh in on this. I reverse-engineered the app, and feel confident in stating that I have a very strong understanding for how the app operates (or at least operated as of a few months ago).

TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network. If there is an API to get information on you, your contacts, or your device… well, they’re using it.

Phone hardware (cpu type, number of course, hardware ids, screen dimensions, dpi, memory usage, disk space, etc)

Other apps you have installed (I’ve even seen some I’ve deleted show up in their analytics payload - maybe using as cached value?)

Everything network-related (ip, local ip, router mac, your mac, wifi access point name)

Whether or not you’re rooted/jailbroken

Some variants of the app had GPS pinging enabled at the time, roughly once every 30 seconds - this is enabled by default if you ever location-tag a post IIRC

They set up a local proxy server on your device for “transcoding media”, but that can be abused very easily as it has zero authentication

The scariest part of all of this is that much of the logging they’re doing is remotely configurable, and unless you reverse every single one of their native libraries (have fun reading all of that assembly, assuming you can get past their customized fork of OLLVM!!!) and manually inspect every single obfuscated function. They have several different protections in place to prevent you from reversing or debugging the app as well. App behavior changes slightly if they know you’re trying to figure out what they’re doing. There’s also a few snippets of code on the Android version that allows for the downloading of a remote zip file, unzipping it, and executing said binary. There is zero reason a mobile app would need this functionality legitimately.

On top of all of the above, they weren’t even using HTTPS for the longest time. They leaked users’ email addresses in their HTTP REST API, as well as their secondary emails used for password resets. Don’t forget about users’ real names and birthdays, too. It was allllll publicly viewable a few months ago if you MITM’d the application.

They provide users with a taste of “virality” to entice them to stay on the platform. Your first TikTok post will likely garner quite a bit of likes, regardless of how good it is.. assuming you get past the initial moderation queue if thats still a thing. Most users end up chasing the dragon. Oh, there’s also a ton of creepy old men who have direct access to children on the app, and I’ve personally seen (and reported) some really suspect stuff. 40-50 year old men getting 8-10 year old girls to do “duets” with them with sexually suggestive songs. Those videos are posted publicly. TikTok has direct messaging functionality.

Here’s the thing though.. they don’t want you to know how much information they’re collecting on you, and the security implications of all of that data in one place, en masse, are fucking huge. They encrypt all of the analytics requests with an algorithm that changes with every update (at the very least the keys change) just so you can’t see what they’re doing. They also made it so you cannot use the app at all if you block communication to their analytics host off at the DNS-level.

For what it’s worth I’ve reversed the Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter apps. They don’t collect anywhere near the same amount of data that TikTok does, and they sure as hell aren’t outright trying to hide exactly whats being sent like TikTok is. It’s like comparing a cup of water to the ocean - they just don’t compare.

tl;dr; I’m a nerd who figures out how apps work for a job. Calling it an advertising platform is an understatement. TikTok is essentially malware that is targeting children. Don’t use TikTok. Don’t let your friends and family use it.

[isaacsapphire]

I’d heard a bit about this, but that’s worse than I imagined it could be.

[splatterparrot]

WE DID IT!!✨ Congratulations trainers, we defeated Zeraora!⚡️ Here’s some fanart to celebrate!

[maxrepelsketchbook]

Turtle plants

[cat-dog-pet-memorial]

First time scratching post lesson for kitten.

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[chichiai]

Postin here cause it blew the fuck up on twitter

Lyrics by @ajlenoire and @kiwi

[kiwi]

what the fuck this is amazing

[dankmemeuniversity]

[coordinator-coatl]

Friendly reminder that hating Pokemon Unite isn't just about ""no Sinnoh remakes or no let's Go Johto"".

Fucking Tencent is the one making it.

Tencent is known for spyware, punishes those who support the Hong Kong protests, are KNOWN to rip off larger companies or buy out larger companies if they're seen as competition, are extremely rampant with censorship of any kind, and were receiving personal information from Apple such as I.P Addresses, and the CEO is extremely honored by the communist party that supports Muslim concentration camps.

This company is absolutely fucking garbage and it's pretty obvious from the comment section of the video that everyone who knows about Tencent is chiming in with them dipping the moment they announced it was made by them.

And if that's not enough to stop you from wanting to play tencent has driven many players who actually did enjoy their games away due to the rampant cheating that occurs and isn't dealt with in their other online games. They're known to try and milk their gamers for money with pay to win deals and from the sounds of it ""free to start"" means you'll have to pay eventually no matter what and then continue to keep paying in order to succeed or advance in later levels due to the pay to win structure.

For those who are excited about this there are LITERALLY so many other games on this oversaturated market that spent time on their back grounds, and textures, and design that dont make them look like a dollar store rip off game. Please look into literally anything else.

Pokemon Unite is NOT the way to go

I'm sure that people in the videos comments did a MUCH better job of explaining the dangers of tencent instead of me and theyre most likely a lot more well aware of the first hand experience with them. But please just take my word for it when I say that the ""unfair hate around this game because it's not a Sinnoh Remake"" is bullshit.

There's hate for a reason

[crabbybce]

I’ll admit I was skeptical of these points bc there are no links or resources to back em up, so I did a little research.

So Tencent is a ridiculously large conglomerate holding company whose investments in video games ALONE pile up fast:

(Outside of video games, Tencent also invests in “search engine[s], e-commerce, retail, real estate, software, virtual reality, ride-sharing, banking, financial services, fintech, consumer technology, computer technology, automobile, film production, movie ticketing, music production, space technology, natural resources, smartphones, big data, agriculture, medical services, cloud computing, social media, IT, advertising, streaming media, artificial intelligence, robotics, UAVs, food delivery, courier services, e-book, internet services, education, and renewable energy.” Needless to say, the company has a LOT of influence and power.)

Regarding OP’s mention of the Hong Kong protests -- Tencent made a partnership with the NBA to secure rights to stream its U.S. games in China, but in October 2019, when Houston Rockets general manager Morey expressed support for the protesters in Hong Kong, “Tencent began sending out refunds to customers after cancelling the broadcast of NBA games" due to NBA executive manager Adam Silver’s support of Morey’s “freedom of political expression.” (x) 

Regarding OP’s mention of censorship -- oh boy there’s a lot of info that proves their rampant censorship. Most notably, Tencent owns the social media app WeChat (which has “a billion active daily users”) and uses it to facilitate Chinese government surveillance and censorship. Millions of WeChat conversations were found to be relayed to police; people have been interrogated and arrested due to their private conversations. (There have been ”penalties against numerous WeChat users for mocking President Xi Jinping, criticizing judicial officials, commenting on massive floods, sharing information about human rights abuses, or expressing views related to their persecuted religion or ethnicity.”) Also, WeChat SIGNIFICANTLY distorts the news available to its users by using AI to find and delete select topics (including in 2018, the “deletions from some 4,000 public accounts...[of] major news stories like the U.S.-China trade dispute, the arrest in Canada of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, the #MeToo movement and public health scandals”). (x)

Regarding OP’s mention of ripping off other companies -- Tencent’s founder and chairman, Pony Ma, has famously said, “[To] copy is not evil.” There are plenty of allegations and remarks out there about his inclination toward copying.

Regarding OP’s mention of Apple -- at least in iOS 13, Apple’s “Safari browser uses Tencent’s Safe Browsing system to help fight malicious webpages--but Tencent may log IP addresses in the process.” Apple’s also had many issues with surveillance and censorship in China. (x)

Regarding OP’s mention of Tencent’s money-grabbing -- their popular technique of gaining revenue from games is to publish “free-to-play” games, such as Pokemon Unite, and then include in-game transactions so people will pay *after* having gotten into the swing of the game.

TL;DR: Tencent is a despicable company whose hand in a Pokemon game should be a red flag. Don’t support this company.

[coordinator-coatl]

Y-you are an absolute godsend

I didn't expect this post to blow up like it did, but that's probably a poor excuse for no links

Thank you so much for taking the time to find sources 🥺🥺🥺

[alakazamryn]

piers is the best but also worst role model

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[deebyfeeby]

Hello yes I love them

[milkayart]

cunning

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[aetherfirecat]

If you’ve been posting in favor of BLM for the past couple of weeks, but intend to play Pokemon Unite despite knowing that it is being designed and published by Tencent, you are the definition of a hypocrite. 

Tencent built the Sesame Credit app that is preparing to become mandatory across mainland China. To briefly define what it is, it’s a program that influences your real-world financial credit score based on your social media interactions. Like and share acceptable propaganda, your credit score will increase. Like or share something the government doesn’t like, your credit score decreases. If you’re even so much as friends with someone who likes or shares something the government dislikes, it affects your score too. Thereby limiting who people are willing to associate with, and what they’re willing to learn. 

It also affects citizens based on individual purchases. If you buy something like video games, or non-approved books, or anything that’s not a “necessity”, this can lower your credit score as well, since the app is targeted to flag you as a “non-ideal citizen”. (Kind of ironic then that they program video games too, with micro-transactions, but I guess a lot of companies will have double standards for profit these days). 

Tencent is also the company that encouraged Blizzard to suppress players from speaking out about freeing Hong Kong. A revolution that is still ongoing, where Hong Kong citizens are fighting to secure their democratic freedom, and where protesters are being tortured or even executed. 

While this is going on, also keep in mind that there are other protests going on, because the mainland government in northwest China is rounding up and keeping approximately 1.8 Uyghur Muslims in re-education (concentration) camps, so that they may gain access to more energy resources and trading routes. 

Tencent is one of the main companies behind keeping atrocities like this silenced. 

PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT POKEMON UNITE. PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT TENCENT.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[bisexuanal]

I know everyone needs to memorize this

[lif-61-deactivated20200411]

I think boomer parents got the opposite of whatever this guide is.