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I joined for the first time a few days ago using my gmail account and then selected a few tags like animals, comedy, sports. I only watched about 10 cat videos.
by throw43235 4y ago
I joined for the first time a few days ago using my gmail account and then selected a few tags like animals, comedy, sports. I only watched about 10 cat videos.
Next day I get a notification of a video called "I'm in my 40's, single and I don't have any children". I was shocked.
It's impossible for their algorithm to deduce so many facts about me. Which leads me to think that I already have a shadow profile with my gmail address and/or TikTok is somehow working with Google on this.
- reilly3000 4y agoIts almost all patterned around dwell time on the videos they feed you. And those tags gave them a really good start TBH. Then they start throwing more Target stuff out and see how you resonate. It’s incredibly clever, but I really don’t think they need 3rd party data to start to infer those things. They don’t even label them like marketers would with traditional categories, it’s graph first and model driven.
- LeonTheremin 4y agoTikTok has access to shadow profiles of everyone that includes even their inner speech and body data - all obtained with electromagnetic surveillance using silicon trojans in cell transmitters. And so does Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Spotify, all of Big Tech. And so does terrorists recruited on 4chan and KiwiFarms - who use this to create school shooters, sell drugs, change elections, corrupt children, threaten human rights defenders, and stop safe competing companies from challenging Silicon Valley's monopolies. Privacy has long been dead.