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Too little, too late. Already forced the family to uninstall it and its gone forever. Wish the kids could understand that its spyware with access to a lot of

Too little, too late. Already forced the family to uninstall it and its gone forever. Wish the kids could understand that its spyware with access to a lot of toxic social media.

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Shank 6y ago
> Already forced the family to uninstall it and its gone forever. Honestly you’d be better off educating them and telling them it’s a good idea than forcing them to jettison an app they probably love. Tons of apps do this (as discovered in iOS 14) and I highly suggest not doing a crusade against one when a lot more do it. See: https://youtu.be/pRSWdtoUAjo https://youtu.be/pRSWdtoUAjo
- annoyingnoob 6y ago
  Fair enough, we don't have any of the known spyware - TikTok was the only one. I was already questioning the value of TikTok before it became well known that its spyware. I won't tell you about the week of crying because someone was calling my 8 year old a 'viscogirl' after seeing something on Tiktok about it. It really looks like toxic garbage to me.
  - mikeyouse 6y ago
    It's starting to fill up with Pizzagate "secret dungeon basement" conspiracy theories too.. probably better off without it.
    - techntoke 6y ago
      Doesn't sound so far fetched when TikTok is allowed to violate COPPA and is a haven for child predators.
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    You sure it wasn't "VSCO girl"?
    - annoyingnoob 6y ago
      I guess you know better than me, whatever.
lnanek2 6y ago
Seems feasible it was a spam check. All my sensitive data is over in a separate work apps launcher anyway. Personally, I find lots of useful content on TikTok. There's a divorce lawyer I've actually called in person. There's a nurse who gives coronavirus tips. There's a Chinese teacher. There's an idol who did a funny hand wash dance without showing a lot of skin and who does funny things with her cats. There's a fitness guy who always has a new way to do push ups or whatever. There's a chiro with back pain tips, etc.. One coworker does dances with her daughter - so maybe it helps parent-child bonding.
- annoyingnoob 6y ago
  > All my sensitive data is over in a separate work apps launcher anyway. How does that apply to children?
vmception 6y ago
> and its gone forever is it though? do you honestly believe that?
nsxwolf 6y ago
My Daughter: "Dad let me install TikTok!" Me: "No. It is Chinese spyware." My Daughter: "<so and so from school> has TikTok!" Me: "<so and so> is a Chinese asset!" My Daughter: "No she's not!" Every day.
- vulcan01 6y ago
  In my experience it is a lot easier to tell your friends that you don't have any social media, rather than saying that you don't have a specific social media app/account/thing. Why? It's harder to understand why someone wouldn't install TikTok when they already have Snapchat/Instagram/everything else. (I'm a high school student, abstaining from social media other than HN.) Edit: Have you tried explaining to your daughter why TikTok is Chinese spyware?
  - Gatsky 6y ago
    HN is social media?
    - criddell 6y ago
      I think it is, at least as much as Reddit is as well. And before that Digg and Slashdot.
- justicezyx 6y ago
  > My Daughter: "<so and so from school> has TikTok!" > Me: "<so and so> is a Chinese asset!" I cannot believe this is allowed on this forum. IIRC, you are suggesting some individual in your daughter's school, presumably a Chinese ethnic, is a "Chinese asset"? What do you mean by "Chinese asset"? Edit: It seems I read the asset wrong. See replies below.
  - grillvogel 6y ago
    if you accept the premise that tiktok is collecting data for the chinese government, then anyone using the app would indeed be an asset

Too little, too late. Already forced the family to uninstall it and its gone forever. Wish the kids could understand that its spyware with access to a lot of toxic social media.

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Shank 6y ago

> Already forced the family to uninstall it and its gone forever. Honestly you’d be better off educating them and telling them it’s a good idea than forcing them to jettison an app they probably love. Tons of apps do this (as discovered in iOS 14) and I highly suggest not doing a crusade against one when a lot more do it. See: https://youtu.be/pRSWdtoUAjo https://youtu.be/pRSWdtoUAjo

annoyingnoob 6y ago
Fair enough, we don't have any of the known spyware - TikTok was the only one. I was already questioning the value of TikTok before it became well known that its spyware. I won't tell you about the week of crying because someone was calling my 8 year old a 'viscogirl' after seeing something on Tiktok about it. It really looks like toxic garbage to me.
- mikeyouse 6y ago
  It's starting to fill up with Pizzagate "secret dungeon basement" conspiracy theories too.. probably better off without it.
  - techntoke 6y ago
    Doesn't sound so far fetched when TikTok is allowed to violate COPPA and is a haven for child predators.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  You sure it wasn't "VSCO girl"?
  - annoyingnoob 6y ago
    I guess you know better than me, whatever.

lnanek2 6y ago

Seems feasible it was a spam check. All my sensitive data is over in a separate work apps launcher anyway. Personally, I find lots of useful content on TikTok. There's a divorce lawyer I've actually called in person. There's a nurse who gives coronavirus tips. There's a Chinese teacher. There's an idol who did a funny hand wash dance without showing a lot of skin and who does funny things with her cats. There's a fitness guy who always has a new way to do push ups or whatever. There's a chiro with back pain tips, etc.. One coworker does dances with her daughter - so maybe it helps parent-child bonding.

annoyingnoob 6y ago
> All my sensitive data is over in a separate work apps launcher anyway. How does that apply to children?

vmception 6y ago

> and its gone forever is it though? do you honestly believe that?

nsxwolf 6y ago

My Daughter: "Dad let me install TikTok!" Me: "No. It is Chinese spyware." My Daughter: "<so and so from school> has TikTok!" Me: "<so and so> is a Chinese asset!" My Daughter: "No she's not!" Every day.

vulcan01 6y ago
In my experience it is a lot easier to tell your friends that you don't have any social media, rather than saying that you don't have a specific social media app/account/thing. Why? It's harder to understand why someone wouldn't install TikTok when they already have Snapchat/Instagram/everything else. (I'm a high school student, abstaining from social media other than HN.) Edit: Have you tried explaining to your daughter why TikTok is Chinese spyware?
- Gatsky 6y ago
  HN is social media?
  - criddell 6y ago
    I think it is, at least as much as Reddit is as well. And before that Digg and Slashdot.
justicezyx 6y ago
> My Daughter: "<so and so from school> has TikTok!" > Me: "<so and so> is a Chinese asset!" I cannot believe this is allowed on this forum. IIRC, you are suggesting some individual in your daughter's school, presumably a Chinese ethnic, is a "Chinese asset"? What do you mean by "Chinese asset"? Edit: It seems I read the asset wrong. See replies below.
- grillvogel 6y ago
  if you accept the premise that tiktok is collecting data for the chinese government, then anyone using the app would indeed be an asset