On October 27, Taobao officially launched the "Share Cart" function, users can select the Taobao shopping cart products they want to share, and they can share them with friends with one click. Previously, some media reported that as the first "Double Eleven" after the implementation of the new policy of "interconnection" of Internet platforms, people are expected to share the content of Taobao shopping carts directly to Platforms such as WeChat.
However, after the launch of this function, some users found that unlike platforms such as Weibo and Alipay, users who shared Taobao shopping carts to WeChat, QQ and other portals needed to be carried out through the "Tao Password" as a carrier. The reporter's actual measurement found that these Tao passwords could not be opened directly on WeChat, but were presented in the form of garbled codes.
Some users have reported that the copy of the Tao password on WeChat cannot be opened.
The reporter contacted WeChat, and as of press time, there was no response to this.
The platform "demolished the wall", to what step?
This year is known as the "first year of Internet anti-monopoly", and promoting platform opening is also the focus of Internet anti-monopoly in the near future.
At a press conference held by the Information Office of the State Council on September 13, a spokesman for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pointed out: "Ensuring the normal access of legitimate URL links is the basic requirement of Internet development, and restricting the identification, analysis and normal access of URL links without legitimate reasons has affected the user experience, damaged the rights and interests of users, and disrupted the market order." ”
At a "Administrative Guidance Meeting on Blocking URL Links" held by the Information and Communications Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on September 9, Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, Baidu, Huawei, Xiaomi, Momo, 360, NetEase and other enterprises attending the meeting were required to unblock according to the standard before September 17, otherwise they would take disposal measures according to law.
At present, in weChat group chat, Taobao links can still only be shared through passwords.
However, the reporter's actual test found that at present, it is still impossible to access the links of some commonly used network platforms on the WeChat platform. For example, when sharing the links of Douyin, Taobao and Pinduoduo in WeChat group chat, you can still only share passwords, and you cannot click directly on WeChat to view them. In the WeChat one-on-one chat, you can open it by copying the link, but you can click to view it after the "Continue to Visit" display appears on the page.
It is understood that on September 17, WeChat issued a statement saying that the "WeChat External Link Content Management Specification" will be adjusted, under the premise of ensuring information security, users can access external links in one-on-one chat scenarios after upgrading the latest version of WeChat. However, in the statement released by WeChat, it was also pointed out that the opening of external links will comply with some principles, such as complying with national laws and regulations, preventing excessive acquisition of user privacy, endangering online information security and data security, and preventing excessive marketing and inducing sharing.
Regarding the "demolition of walls" of online platforms, public opinion has different views. Some netizens believe that the essence of the Internet is interconnection, and the mutual barriers between platforms will only bring inconvenience to users; however, some netizens said that they are worried that after the link is fully released, it will lead to excessive marketing behavior and the flood of micro-businesses in the circle of friends.
[Reporter] Wu Yang
【Author】 Wu Yang
Southern Probe
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