They think that their domination is strong enough so that after an initial backlash, the users will come back since they have nowhere else to go. And they’re kind of right.

It’s strange how the Internet has been flooded by this news. Like leave Google alone or Firefox gets it. Very strategic use of the media might I say.

Propaganda? Judging by the number of downvotes, I assume people didn’t even bother watching a 5 minutes video. Set it on 2x speed.

Well…the domestic routers also conduct in heavy data collection and some have technical backdoors, so I don’t know.

Some data is definitely collected especially if the router is made for mainland China.

I don’t know about evil, but it’s curious to see that the OS that Xiaomi uses is a modified version of OpenWRT, so the support could have been there. I mean it could still be an option in the future.

No, it cannot.