IP proxy services have become a sought-after tool in China less than a month after the country’s main social media platforms started to reveal all users’ location information. Why it matters: Chinese internet users are in a cat and mouse game with the country’s social media platforms which have dealt a blow to users’ privacy by forcing them to reveal their geolocation. Since April 15, major Chinese social media platforms including ByteDance’s Jinri Toutiao and Douyin, Kuaishou, and Xiaohongshu announced that they will start to display all users’ location information by way of revealing the region where their IP addresses...