Not User Friendly and Data Mining Sus – WeChat Review

No matter if you login using Facebook or apple, you need to provide your phone number and have someone verify you. Otherwise signup cannot be completed. This is very sketchy as to why they even have OpenID to authenticate with other providers if it’s the same as mobile signup regardless. Only reasonable answer for this behavior is to get her customer data and still require the same signup flow. That way they can store your Facebook login information, Apple ID and your phone number. No matter what you need to go through mobile signup which requires you to have someone who already has a WeChat account to verify you within minutes. Do not bother with other signup options as they aren’t necessarily options but just ways to get extra data. They only allow deletion depending on local laws, not by their own policy so make sure to look up your local/country laws on data and privacy.
Review by yuelchen on WeChat.