I absolutely hate it, in tachiyomi, it just keeps reloading the page instead of giving me a captcha to solve...

It's common in critical projects.

Date is weird, 100% battery, very sus indeed.

Was it that bad?

About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world's population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language.

You could be saying the truth or lying in this instance.