• Trarmp@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    8 months ago

    TikTok OBJECTIVELY collects far lesser data than Big Tech apps and services

    This is not true for a number of reasons, first being that once the data gets sent to a Chinese server, it’s gone. It’s like a void. Those “data collections analysis” can speculate, but they truly have no idea what happens with that data. Another reason that TikTok is as bad as Instagram, is that they farmed all the data from the in-app browser. Every click, scroll, everything.

    You can argue that they have a different approach to data farming, and they do: they try and rope you in, trick you into giving them your data. But it’s demonstrable wrong to say that they collect less data. I wouldn’t say they collect more data than typical west social media platforms, but I think it’s disingenuous to say they’re somehow better.

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      8 months ago

      once the data gets sent to a Chinese server, it’s gone. It’s like a void.

      This sounds insanely xenophobic and racist.

      Those “data collections analysis” can speculate, but they truly have no idea what happens with that data.

      The one doing speculation is you. Analysis is not speculation. Maybe check a dictionary.

      it’s demonstrable wrong to say that they collect less data.

      I wouldn’t say

      Facts or feelings. Choose one. You have not yet chosen facts.