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How different is tiktok compared facebook or any American social networking app/company? Is it just a decision of whether I want to give my data to the America

• jjoonathan 6y ago
  Usually I hate to just quote TFA but it's written in the form of an answer to this very question, so: > 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.
• layoutIfNeeded 6y ago
  >Is it just a decision of whether I want to give my data to the American government or the Chinese government? iOS dev here. Facebook does the same with their SDK which is included in basically every iOS app. Google does the same with the Firebase SDK which is also included in every app. There are also tons of other SaaS companies offering their own plug-and-play analytics SDKs, of which marketing managers are eager to shove down the engineers throats as many as possible. It’s not uncommon for a single app to host 6-7 different analytics SDKs from various vendors. And this is on iOS, the supposedly “privacy conscious” platform. On Android it’s total Wild West...