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These seem like standard things any analytics tracker (including GA) tracks, check out amiunique [1] for a set of things that can be tracked using your favorite
by parhamn 6y ago
These seem like standard things any analytics tracker (including GA) tracks, check out amiunique [1] for a set of things that can be tracked using your favorite secure browser.
Yet, the rest of the content on Tiktok is very low threat. No chat, no personal health forums, no private photos. It’s mostly a consumption platform with very little input from the users besides those listed in the linked thread (I don’t find that data particularly scary vs what we’ve accepted as normal in the internet).
What’s scary about tiktok is how addictive it is and how it is very much engineered and optimized to be so. Some in the new world are fine with this, I am not.
[1] https://amiunique.org/ https://amiunique.org/
- wavepruner 6y agoFrom the comment: "For what it's worth I've reversed the Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter apps. They don't collect anywhere near the same amount of data that TikTok does, and they sure as hell aren't outright trying to hide exactly whats being sent like TikTok is. It's like comparing a cup of water to the ocean - they just don't compare."
- sergiotapia 6y ago"TikTok is a government tool by the Chinese communist government to mine information from future leaders and blackmail them." This is truly scary. "People need to understand the timelines these people plan for."
- parhamn 6y agoSure, very shady. My point is, I’d be much more concerned about a WeChat that has your conversations, transaction history, etc than a non-topical video feed (e.g unlike YouTube people don’t really look for STD/mental-health videos on tiktok, and things that reveal a lot about a user).
- wizzwizz4 6y agoMost analytics trackers don't have code to extract and execute the contents of a zip file.