You don’t use TikTok for privacy concerns.
I don’t use TikTok for both privacy concerns and cringe concerns.
We are (50%) not the same
China: hey Alphabet, we’ll give you five dollars for it
Alphabet: of course! Would you like our special CIA package?
This, but instead of five dollars it’s like 0,01 cents for everything there is to know about you
To install the data on the 3DS, of course!
why just, always, alphabet? it’s so… uh… shilly…
I ask you, why alphabet? Why always?
you saying… it’s my perception?
I was a venting a little, I think I’m on of the shills you say, and the reason is at least I can ignore these Chinese apps and go on, but alphabet, in other side is all the time trying to mold the internet to show you more ads, things like the monopoly of chromium and the web environment integrity. I can live without tik tok but not without browsers and internet these days
I made some 20 years ago many choices about what tech I would never use. the only thing I know, it’s that I’m still very largely right about those choices, though I’m aware that’s a lost war
That’s not actually how it works. Google doesn’t sell or give away data, they just use it for targeted ads, which means it’s in their best interest to be the only ones with your data.
Written on Huawei phone
deleted by creator
Lol is this a thing that I’m supposed to be doing? I’m not used to being around such a high proportion of tech people, and I’m struggling to tell when you all are taking the piss
You aren’t around a high proportion of tech people, you’re around a few tech people and a bunch of paranoid ex-Redditors. The amount of tech misinfo here is as bad as Reddit, so probably not a good idea to assume everyone here is smarter than you when they’re just on the first peak of a Duning-Kruger chart.
New routers will usually update automatically, especially for security fixes, but still not a bad idea to take a quick look to make sure.
deleted by creator
Plot twist: uses a xiaomi phone
Another plot twist: without default OS
I think this might be my favorite meme. I love when people find new excuses to use it.
Nooooo
“All right, then” gets your secrets from one of the other 30 apps with ties to China you’re using
Or just buying your data from US based companies, almost every app (even ones that say they don’t) collect so much unrelated data for the parent company to sell. Why does McDonalds need to passively collect my network carrier, screen resolution, birthday, or gps coordinates?
Get the duckduckgo app, enable the tracking protection, and cringe at the hundreds of thousands of tracking attempts that your apps are giving. I had 200,000 tracking attempts blocked in the past 7 days alone (not including time I had the tracking protection off)
deleted by creator
If want to know about me, ask USA, I won’t tell you
First time in my life I’ve ever felt “old” was finding out how widely used tik tok is. Never used or even seen the fucking thing
I don’t think China wants to know how often i make videos of me taking a dump…
Poo Bear has entered the chat
I heard it was actually a dude from Singapore that started it. I’ll never use it, so I’m not too sure if they have any obligations to china aside from what is used in a china, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are plenty of American companies hanging out with tencent, like blizzard.
I don’t download it because I have an addictive personality. But it kinda feels like our digital privacy has been thrown out the window no matter what you do
If you believe privacy exists in any developed nation in 2023 🤣
Privacy is as extinct as lamplighters, or the social contract.
Fortunately for you, you almost certainly aren’t very interesting, especially if you’re the type concerned about such things. Multiple governments and very likely multiple corporations know roughly how many guns you own, the kind of porns you’re into, whether you’re likely to cause a scene at some point in your life, etc.
There’s still privacy in the deep forest if it’s that important to you, but the Wifi sucks. Life is trade offs.
And as for whether my government that oppresses me or another government that oppresses their people have that data, whoopdie doo villains the world over have a profile on lil old me. A modern peasant not born into wealth/power having agency or a voice in such things is an illusion.
I get my privacy from Nord VPN. Click the link in the description to get 69% off a 5 year commitment. THanKs NorD VpN!
Hmm, I don’t know… Maybe it’s a fantasy but I trust my country (US) to at least somewhat have my interests at heart, if for no other reason than mutual self-interest and absolutely nothing else. I can’t say the same for China. I do think they have nefarious purposes. Not only that, but there’s some chance of discovering what US companies are up to. I couldn’t even begin to imagine how one would obtain information about what Chinese companies are doing, they’re basically an extension of the CCP, which has gone off the deep end, sadly, at least in my fairly uninformed opinion.
“Maybe it’s a fantasy but I trust my country (US) to at least somewhat have my interests at heart”
I mean, they might, but that depends entirely on your net worth, and if you have to ask how much, they don’t.
If your last name is Walton or Buffet though, both major parties will gladly suck on your genitals personally.
5 stages of grief, stage 1. ^
No government cares about you, buddy.
No, but mine is slightly more likely to engage in mutual self-interest than China is, as I argued in my previous comment. The US ain’t perfect, but China is far less so.
