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e_mc2@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I seriously doubt this. You have to be very conscious to fully understand what it is these large platforms actually do “behind the scenes”. Unfortunately the vast majority of people imo is either completely oblivious or even worse, doesn’t care. I mean look at the immense success of tiktok. Numerous warnings that it’s nothing less than straight-up spyware from China, yet half the world happily continues to use it.

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Shialac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
eh, most other social media sites have been nothing else but spyware from the US, some of them for over a decade

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- e_mc2@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Agreed
  
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IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have a friend that uses Tiktok. He has never posted a video on there, just watches crap.

He went to bed one night in August and mentioned that overnight, as he slept, the Tiktok app sent/received 8.6 gbs of data as he slept, the app was closed, screen locked.

I can only imagine what the Tiktok app does if you have a son/daughter with Tiktok on their phone (whether you know or not) and work for a state/federal government.

My friend is a engineer too, still has it installed, not a stupid person by any means (well…). Very unsettling.

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- FraidyBear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Engineering degrees don’t always equal smarts, sometimes it’s just hard work and a talent in math. I worked with a guy who was graduating with a degree in structural engineering and the guy legitimately thought that vaccines caused autism and that the moon landing was faked. I asked him to let me know what bridges he would be working on around the city so I could be sure to avoid them, then I had to have a talk with HR about bullying in the work place lol
  
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- RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I wonder if it’s just preloading videos or something?
  
  It doesn’t take that much data to spy on someone, unless they’re sending uncompressed recordings of your friend snoring or something.
  
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  - IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Hmm, your statement just made me ponder sort of the opposite…
    
    I wonder if keeps any plans/videos on his phone of sites he has/is worked/working at.
    
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foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I mean the counter I hear is valid, “and Facebook is spyware from the US.”

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- bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Facebook is spyware from a company based in the US. But because of China’s economic structure TikTok is a tool of the CCP itself.
  
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  - foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Did you forget about Cambridge analytics?
    
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