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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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
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Very important distinction not made by the title.
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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.
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If you use the app to access those websites then they can.
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.
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Right in the title.
Nope. It’s internal to the app.
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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.
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.
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