Dec 13, 2022·3 repliesMeanwhile facebook and ig and countless others doin the same thing
Dec 13, 2022
Bow And ArrowSports gambling doc is gonna be crazy too
This is facts bro, half of the UFC’s presentation is like all about the parlays and betting on fights lol
Dec 13, 2022GOOD
- Dec 13, 2022Mitclan 616
Meanwhile facebook and ig and countless others doin the same thing
Dec 13, 2022
Dec 13, 2022Bow And ArrowSports gambling doc is gonna be crazy too
the advertising is so perverse, s***'s on tv, radio, youtube, social media etc. can't escape it.
Dec 17, 2022Tiktok is the first subject which I have embraced my age and became the annoying old man about
- Dec 17, 2022Bow And Arrow
Sports gambling doc is gonna be crazy too
When did this happen? Feels like overnight you see ads for sports gambling EVERYWHERE. Free money for new players, win double if you vote for this team, etc. Never gamble.
Dec 17, 2022·1 replyVenezuela considered a foreign adversary lol
- Dec 17, 2022
Grown adults using tiktok
6isco 🦈Dec 17, 2022anti data collection thread on a forum made to steal your data
Dec 17, 2022·1 replyYuzzyVenezuela considered a foreign adversary lol
Ain’t the U.S trying to negotiate an oil deal with them?
Dec 17, 2022Mitclan 616Meanwhile facebook and ig and countless others doin the same thing
Dec 17, 2022People that hate on tiktok at this point are f***ing losers that hate to see people having fun. Dawg there’s so much good and fun content on tiktok. It’s like how can you hate it when you can pretty much determine the type of stuff you see. Like let people have fun in peace.
- Dec 17, 2022necromancer
Ain’t the U.S trying to negotiate an oil deal with them?
Prolly they do be having it
- Dec 17, 2022
I honestly will NEVER understand this site’s hate for social media while trying to act superior for posting on this site like this isn’t a lesser social media platform at this point.
Dec 17, 2022
hot pancakes
TikTok is horrible. And should be banned in the US.Sure, the algorithm works great and you can find cool tips/recommendations on there (a lot of which are fake or false info or paid advertisements disguised as tips/recommendations) but that’s because it’s super aggressive. Literally damaging the brains of teens and early 20 year olds everywhere.
Facebook, IG, Twitter definitely collect our data, but the amount of data they collect is like a cup of water
TikToks is like the ocean
Not to mention, it’s owned by a country we have a rivalry with, and it would be naive to not think that they aren’t doing anything with our data
If you want to read more, here’s a summary from someone who reversed engineered the app:
TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network. If there is an API to get information on you, your contacts, or your device... well, they're using it.
• Phone hardware (cpu type, number of course, hardware ids, screen dimensions, dpi, memory usage, disk space, etc)
• Other apps you have installed (I've even seen some I've deleted show up in their a***ytics payload - maybe using as cached value?)
• Everything network-related (ip, local ip, router mac, your mac, wifi access point name)
• Whether or not you're rooted/jailbroken
• Some variants of the app had GPS pinging enabled at the time, roughly once every 30 seconds - this is enabled by default if you ever location-tag a post IIRC
• They set up a local proxy server on your device for "transcoding media", but that can be abused very easily as it has zero authenticationThe scariest part of all of this is that much of the logging they're doing is remotely configurable, and unless you reverse every single one of their native libraries (have fun reading all of that assembly, assuming you can get past their customized fork of OLLVM!!!) and manually inspect every single obfuscated function.
They have several different protections in place to prevent you from reversing or debugging the app as well. App behavior changes slightly if they know you're trying to figure out what they're doing. There's also a few snippets of code on the Android version that allows for the downloading of a remote zip file, unzipping it, and executing said binary. There is zero reason a mobile app would need this functionality legitimately.
On top of all of the above, they weren't even using HTTPS for the longest time. They leaked users' email addresses in their HTTP REST API, as well as their secondary emails used for password resets. Don't forget about users' real names and birthdays, too. It was allllll publicly viewable a few months ago if you MITM'd the application.
Here's the thing though.. they don't want you to know how much information they're collecting on you, and the security implications of all of that data in one place, en masse, are f***ing huge. They encrypt all of the a***ytics requests with an algorithm that changes with every update (at the very least the keys change) just so you can't see what they're doing. They also made it so you cannot use the app at all if you block communication to their a***ytics host off at the DNS-level.
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news_but_tbh_if_you_have_tiktiok_just_get/
News article talking about this from a little while ago:
…a recent BuzzFeed News report that examined leaked audio from 80 internal TikTok meetings. Based on those leaked audio recordings, China-based employees of TikTok parent company ByteDance had repeatedly accessed private information on users in the US.
One member of TikTok's Trust and Safety department reportedly said during a meeting in September 2021 that "everything is seen in China." A director said in another meeting that a Beijing-based engineer referred to as "Master Admin" has "access to everything." Just hours before BuzzFeed News published its report, TikTok announced that it migrated 100 percent of US user traffic to a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It's part of the company's efforts to address concerns by US authorities about how it handles information from users in the country.
https://www.engadget.com/fcc-commissioner-google-facebook-ban-tik-tok-064559992.html
Oh no tiktok knows my screen dimensions
my privacy
Dec 18, 2022Damn I must be the only one who loves TT. When you find the right creators on there its an informational goldmine and you can tell what is BS and what isn't IF you research correctly and read the comments. It has helped me gain crazy knowledge about history, philosophy, graphic design and music production more than any SM app ever has.
Dec 18, 2022NOOOOOOO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT CAN'T JUST HAVE WARRANTLESS ACCESS TO HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLES DATA
ONLY OUR GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE WARRANTLESS ACCESS TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLES DATA
Dec 18, 2022·1 replyThe way Tik tok would be replaced so fast with another bullshit app
Dec 18, 2022I only want American companies to have my data
Dec 18, 2022Mitclan 616Meanwhile facebook and ig and countless others doin the same thing
Difference is that they line the pockets of congress
Dec 18, 2022Somehow nothing was lost
Dec 18, 2022I mean you can’t really blame US in the case any tiktok bill somehow being passed. Can only blame foreign adversaries shady practices with the app.
Mar 1, 2023·6 replies