Shizu

Minors are not allowed to play during specific times and only for a set amount per day. That’s probably why it asks thr info. It’ll prolly be sent off to some state-owned server to keep track of its citizens.

As per evidences:

1. Annexation of Crimea
2. A full fledged fking war against a peaceful country.

Putin can do whatever he likes.

There are numerous VPNs still working great inside mainland China. I have multiple friends who I talk to over Signal which is normally blocked. It’s just a matter of finding the right provider. Also hosting a VPS outside China as your own VPN can work nicely too - and doesn’t come with the performance hit when using Tor.

VLC claims to do just that: “It can play any video and audio files, network streams and DVD ISOs”

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html

Fair, then reprinting won’t help. I’d go ahead and come up with some Python script which exported all pages as png, edited that specific portion of every image and recompile it to a pdf. I’m not sure if there is a too which could already do that out-of-the-box.

Why would the checksum differ between downloads if there was a watermark with user identifiable data

I would try reprinting the PDFs and comparing the hashes afterwards. That should remove any metadata in the headers as new headers are created.