Alibaba's Browser Has Been Deleted from Chinese App Stores (cnbc.com) 21
Alibaba's internet browser has been removed from several app stores in China as the company's feud with the Chinese government continues. From a report: Android app stores including those operated by Huawei and Xiaomi have blocked downloads or removed Alibaba's "UC Browser," according to Huawei and Xiaomi phone owners who spoke to CNBC. However, one Samsung phone owner in China said they could still see the browser in Samsung's app store. The UC Browser is also still available on Apple's App Store. It comes after the UC Browser was criticized on a TV show, broadcast by state-owned broadcaster CCTV, about misleading online medical advertising. The show accused the browser of allowing private hospitals to bid for the names of China's best known hospitals in keyword searches. Thus potentially luring patients to their websites instead of the public hospitals they are supposed to visit.
Browser killed because of Ads (Score:2)
Funny as hell.
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Any resemblance to actual USA companies, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental
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Funny as hell.
The CEO of Alibaba has been openly critical to the Chinese government and as far as I remember some time ago "disappeared" for a while. This is a purposed procedure of either making him complacent or soon the world will get to know of some corruption case involving Jack Ma.
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He doesn't need to be made complacent. He already stepped down because he got to big for his britches. This is actually more of the case that criticism by both public and government entities has grown against Alibaba's position in different sectors. The government has given them an order to basically divest in media sectors because they don't want them to have such a large domain of influence which is effectively what anti-monopoly looks like but the US has no balls. You can say it's because the CEO stepped
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In China the Government cancels you. In the US it is big tech.
Cancel ? If this escalates Ali Baba will just be uncompanied and removed from existence, and reality.
Walled garden better after all (Score:3)
The UC Browser is also still available on Apple's App Store.
Looks like the higher the wall on the garden is, the harder it is for the Chinese to storm it for a raid.
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You act like this is a good thing. UC Browser and 360 security are the most disgusting of browser packages you can imagine. I double dog dare you to install it on your machine now and report back to us about you review of this software. I actively try to remove it on machines I find it because it's so disgusting and it doesn't even have a clean uninstall.
UC Browser is packaged with 360 security which is like saying if you don't want to get AIDs, just get AIDs and you don't have to worry anymore. I think it'
Wish Baidu... (Score:1)
It's not a feud with the Chinese gov't. (Score:5, Insightful)
BABA is part of the CCP, as are all Chinese companies. This is a factional feud within the CCP.
Wonder who Jack Ma forgot to pay off? (Score:3)
This month.
Open sesame! (Score:2)
Re: Gee. I wonder if this has to do with BABA or. (Score:1)
JMEE support (Score:2)
UC browser is (was ?) at least one of the few browser alternatives on JMEE [oracle.com] phones.
I guess that only leaves Opera Mini as a serious option now.