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TikTok is Tracking Your Keystrokes On External Websites

submitted by beece to news 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 08:56:51 ago (+26/-0)     (thenationalpulse.com)

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/08/22/tiktok-tracks-user-keystrokes-on-external-websites-finds-report/



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[ - ] Tallest_Skil 11 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 09:06:29 ago (+12/-1)

TikTok retains this tracking capability due to the way it codes websites launched by users on the in-app browser. When people click on TikTok ads or visit links affiliated with a creator’s profile, for example, the app uses its own in-app browser as opposed to traditional browsers such as Safari or Chrome.

Very important distinction not made by the title.

[ - ] ThisGuy 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 20:32:20 ago (+2/-0)

It literally tells you this in the TOS. FFS.

[ - ] Broc_Liath 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 10:34:21 ago (+0/-0)

How so?

[ - ] olinneserpona 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 10:57:26 ago (+2/-0)

Yeah, isn't this obvious if the new link doesn't open in chrome or any other browser?

[ - ] bobdole9 3 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 12:09:21 ago (+3/-0)

Old people / those that suck with technology won't necessarily notice. Especially if its skinned like Chrome.

[ - ] Broc_Liath 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 14:08:52 ago (+2/-0)

Old people, young people. Generally anyone the target of socnet apps won't notice.

[ - ] olinneserpona 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 19:53:26 ago (+0/-0)

You are right, I was projecting.

[ - ] bobdole9 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 12:08:42 ago (+2/-0)

Don't use "built-in browsers"

[ - ] uvulectomy 3 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 14:31:27 ago (+3/-0)

Don't use TikTok.

[ - ] Broc_Liath 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 14:09:19 ago (+1/-0)

The title is still accurate though. I don't get why that's a meaningful distinction.

[ - ] Tallest_Skil 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 14:15:00 ago (+2/-1)

TikTok the app (or the website… do they have a standalone website?) does not “track you on external websites.” It cannot spy on you while you’re in other apps or your browser simply because it sits on your device (or on other websites just because they have a cookie on your computer; again, I’m not sure if it has a standalone website). What it can and does do (as does every single other fucking worthless “social media” service) is track every keystroke you make on every website you visit *within the in-app web browser inside TikTok itself.

Apps are allowed to call up the device’s browser APIs to serve people a “quick and easy” way to view another webpage while remaining inside the app (rather than having the device hand off the URL to the real browser). From within this in-app browser, TikTok still captures every keystroke you make and knows what sites you visit and how long you visit them. Facebook does this, instagram does this, Pinterest does this, etc. If you instead go out to your real browser, TikTok can’t track you, nor can it see what happens inside other apps.

Apple, for their part, has been notified of this misuse of their acceptable terms of developer use and has privately stated to developers “This is not what we intend. We’re working to force developers not to do this.” But google doesn’t give a shit.

[ - ] Broc_Liath 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 14:18:23 ago (+1/-0)

TikTok the app (or the website… do they have a standalone website?) does not “track you on external websites.”

If you use the app to access those websites then they can.

It cannot spy on you while you’re in other apps or your browser simply because it sits on your device.

That's shifting the goalposts, the article never claimed that. It said they track you on external websites which (according to the article) they do.

[ - ] bobdole9 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 14:46:34 ago (+0/-0)

The point is, they track you when you use their browser. Having the app installed won't directly harm a user.

[ - ] Broc_Liath 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 26, 2022 06:11:31 ago (+0/-0)

Right, but again, the article didn't claim that.

[ - ] Tallest_Skil 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 25, 2022 07:39:58 ago (+0/-0)

That's shifting the goalposts, the article never claimed that

Right in the title.

It said they track you on external websites which (according to the article) they do.

Nope. It’s internal to the app.

[ - ] Broc_Liath 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 26, 2022 06:14:08 ago (+0/-0)

Right in the title.

Neither the title nor the article claimed "It cannot spy on you while you’re in other apps or your browser simply because it sits on your device." or anything similar. That was purely your addition.

The title claimed "TikTok is Tracking Your Keystrokes On External Websites." which is true.

Nope. It’s internal to the app.

Yes. If you visit an external website on their app they can listen in on everything you type. Just like the title says. Your autistic insistence on reinterpreting the title to mean something extra is retarded.

[ - ] Tallest_Skil -1 points 1.7 yearsAug 26, 2022 08:30:25 ago (+0/-1)

Okay, enjoy your mental illness, then. Communists never lie about the world to reorient it around their desires. Never happens.

[ - ] baitsauce 6 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 10:32:38 ago (+6/-0)

tiktok is made by the CCP, they have a similar version of it in china aswell, just you know without all the degeneracy that the west version has. No one should use the fucking thing, but kids are idiots.

[ - ] ThisGuy 5 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 11:30:20 ago (+5/-0)

You mean parents are idiots.

[ - ] yesiknow 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 14:51:02 ago (+2/-0)

Tik Tok recruits NATO ans Washington dorks. Their offices are all communist democrat parasites, who can say @oh we weren't sucking up all your personal information for our paranoia files, China was.

Tik Tok in China is completely different. The Chinese aren't exposed to any of the crap on Tik Tok. Insia and Pakistan, enemies of each other both banned it

[ - ] Bottled_Tears 4 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 10:01:34 ago (+4/-0)

Heard it was in the policy a few years ago lol don't feel sorry

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 11:51:58 ago (+2/-0)

So the chinks know I hate jews and what a white homeland. What will they do with this infornmation?

[ - ] Broc_Liath 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 14:21:23 ago (+1/-0)

If you're asking in general why the chinks would want to build up compromat and intel on western citizens, they'd do it because it helps them carry out operations over here and identify who is likely to be friendly/hostile to their activities.

[ - ] usedoilanalysis 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 25, 2022 07:12:57 ago (+1/-0)

Your spending patterns, location data, words you write, all that is being tracked, and your data sold for a profit. Meanwhile you get gangstalked if you say the wrong or right keywords.

[ - ] HeavyBeefCurtains 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 11:49:45 ago (+2/-0)

dgaf run ublock noscript dont use social media

[ - ] bonghits4jeebus 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 10:49:50 ago (+2/-0)

"your"

[ - ] Boardallday3 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 12:49:54 ago (+2/-0)

Should it be you're?

[ - ] JudyStroyer 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 13:25:44 ago (+2/-0)

"Ur" is modern proper, no?

[ - ] Boardallday3 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 14:20:03 ago (+2/-0)

Ya ur rite

[ - ] JudyStroyer 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 14:43:04 ago (+0/-0)

i no

[ - ] Broc_Liath 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 14:10:01 ago (+1/-0)

"yore"

[ - ] 1point21jiggawatts 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 16:22:58 ago (+1/-0)

TikTok is also the platform with the most antivax, redpilled, based, "conspiracy theory" content due to it's nature they seem to have a hard times shutting it all down as fast as other platforms.

[ - ] Sal_180 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 15:39:46 ago (+1/-0)

External websites on its internal browsers. Who the hell uses the internal browsers?

[ - ] Boardallday3 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 12:48:24 ago (+1/-0)

I'm sure google does the same

[ - ] Broc_Liath 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 14:09:39 ago (+2/-0)

Google openly does the same.

[ - ] ThisGuy 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 11:29:22 ago (+1/-0)

No shit. It literally says that in the TOS. How is anyone surprised by that?

[ - ] bobdole9 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 14:48:00 ago (+1/-0)

Welcome to the 21st Century: "We don't read!"

[ - ] usedoilanalysis 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 25, 2022 07:09:59 ago (+0/-0)

If I ever make a tik tok it will only be to badmouth china.

[ - ] texasblood 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 10:37:44 ago (+1/-1)

Let it burn

[ - ] TallumofAeternis 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 24, 2022 09:19:38 ago (+3/-3)

Whoa, no way!