I'm not a TikTok "apologist" but I think these kinds of concerns about data privacy aren't very useful. At best you're just picking which terrible relationship

I'm not a TikTok "apologist" but I think these kinds of concerns about data privacy aren't very useful. At best you're just picking which terrible relationship to be in and which company you're okay with harvesting your data - for whatever purposes. IMO a better use of time and effort would be to create mechanisms that make these kinds of tracking less impactful. We have avenues for technical solutions to these kinds of problems and decentralized systems. Whenever we attempt to spread adoption to them we are often met with the argument that "just using X big company platform is easier".