And if an app like Signal bypasses blocks, having it installed could become a crime.

Leave it at home and, if you need a phone, take a burner that doesn’t have your personal data and isn’t logged into any of your accounts.

Fuck Reddit.

Great news if you’ve ever looked at your replies and thought “you know what? there are too many non-Nazis here”

Business people travelling to China are advised to take burner phones/laptops with limited access, in case the security services there attack them. I don’t know about South Korea.

Of course, that just means you don’t see ads on Instagram/Facebook. They still collect your data, aggregate it and trade it with data brokers, so the ads you see elsewhere (not to mention prices you’re offered) will become more accurate. In fact, it’s not unlikely that the behavioural data of people who pay to opt out of being spammed with ads will be more valuable to data brokers.

Also, for those who don’t pay, the ads will get more frequent and annoying to induce them to pay. (See also: Spotify)

Now if someone could make a desktop app (perhaps using Qt or some similar cross-platform toolkit) that isn’t Electron bloatware, for all the people who don’t have a few spare CPU cores and gigabytes of RAM to spend on a messaging client.

Google: “we have Onavo at home”