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   Disa (justdisa@shota.house)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 12:50:53 JST Disa

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   @japananon@mitra.anon-kenkai.com Wonder if those are required to have the “Login with Facebook button.” Honestly, I never understood people using apps for things like this. I personally would never use my phone for something like this. I do understand the need/desire, though. But I'd imagine most people who would want to use an app for a platform like this they wouldn't care about the Facebook trackers.
   
   To once again add to that, I feel that those who do care would just use their web browser and click the “Add to home screen” or similar buttons on most mobile browsers that allow essentially quick creation of Web Apps.
   
   Probably would be a good thing to mention to your users though as I imagine individuals looking at your recommendations are more likely to care about that sort of thing and just would like the knowledge so that they know to avoid it.

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     チャノさん (japananon@mitra.anon-kenkai.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 12:50:55 JST チャノさん

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     @JustDisa Did a little extra legwork and ran an Exodus Privacy scan on their Android app. Lot of Facebook trackers:

     https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/552637/#trackers

     I might recommend people blacklist Facebook domains via something like AdAway before using it. No idea if that breaks functionality, I'll be testing it out a little later today.

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     Disa (justdisa@shota.house)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 12:50:56 JST Disa

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     @japananon@mitra.anon-kenkai.com The following is all speculation/theorizing on my part.
     
     
     They're likely trying to make that information hard to find on purpose. That might even just be a company that they have their IOS/Android apps under. As those stores very well might require that information. It might even be an equivalent of those companies which give you a shared address for a "virtual office" as it were. Alternatively, that might be the parent company where Unifans might operate as a sub/shell company of sorts. Everything that I have seen leads me to believe the company is actually in some place like China. Which has been shown to be one of those countries that does not care what you do when conducting business to individuals outside it's borders.
     
     Something else worth noting is, and again this is all speculation. If the servers are not actually located in Canada there might be some loophole or something, i've seen other companies do similar before. The server is behind Cloudflare, so there's no real way to know where it's hosted. But if they're hosting in a country which allows such content, then they might very well be able to get away with having a Canadian corpo behind it. Since no content which would be illegal in canada is being stored in Canada.
     
     Might be using the Canadian company explicitly for the apps (which require the info) and possibly the payment partnerships (though idk if they'd even need to use that and very well might have a sub/shell company like I mentioned for that.) Similarly to how like a bunch of U.S companies actually send their money overseas in tax havens. It might be something like that.
     
     I definitely agree, people should be using basic opsec when accessing Unifans. Such as VPN, withdrawing in USDT, not giving real information. But really people should be doing similar for everything. But, it's especially crucial if you're monetizing lolisho. Paypal and Wise (the normie methods available for payout) just are not safe to be paid in when selling lolisho, simple as that. They will suspend you and seize your funds if you're using those methods and they find out you've been using it for any NSFW, but especially lolisho.

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     チャノさん (japananon@mitra.anon-kenkai.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 12:50:57 JST チャノさん

     I've been doing a little digging into Unifans, and while I agree it has a lot going for it, I have a number of questions about them that remain unanswered.

     Finding corporate information about Unifans took some doing, since the site doesn't have anything provided up front. Pulling up WHOIS records on their domain, and the Developer Profile on their iOS app, revealed that the company behind it is "1000353701 Ontario Inc", an otherwise unnamed private corporation referred to by its Corporation Number in the registry, in this case registered in Ontario, Canada.

     Dun and Bradstreet also has an entry on the company that lists a Mr. Bing Li as the President and Director of the Board. Trying to search for "Bing Li" in Ontario turned up so many results, it'd be difficult to pin down any one as our man, everything from a PhD level geologist to a couple of investment bankers and more.

     None of this is necessarily sinister, but I am very curious about how 1000353701 Ontario Inc can operate Unifans out of Canada while also collecting almost zero information from fans or creators. IANAL, but a brief lookup of KYC/AML laws in Canada makes me think it'd fall under "E-Commerce with Age-Regulated Sales" for any R34 stuff (the example they cite is alcohol, but I think Canada's draconian policies for drawings would apply here).

     As things stand, it's perfectly possible for both fans and creators to access the site via VPN, use pseudonyms, pay/withdraw in USDT, and walk away with no paper trail. For the record, I think this is a good thing... I just wonder how the company can have done this since 2022 without any legal repercussions. I'd need to hear from an actual lawyer on this, though, there may be loopholes I'm unaware of.

     Right now, though, I'd say hell yeah, use it if you can. Just make sure you're behind 7 Boxxies when you do, and have a backup plan in case they get the banhammer at some point.

     Thanks to Crippled Media for bringing this to my attention.

     RE: https://shota.house/notes/a39iai37vno300u3

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