(yes, I also see that it says Chinease)
TikTok is Chinese spyware. Chrome is American spyware. Anyone in their right mind should stop using both.
sometimes it’s nice to know that someone’s watching over me tho
Is your kink getting watched over the shoulder by a big oily fat guy that sweats and breaths through the mouth? Ah and it tries to convince you the buy useless shit
Sort of... how did you know??
Do you think it's safe to upvote this?
Your social credit score went into the red as soon as you saw that picture, it doesn't matter anymore, it's already too late for you
They'll be knocking on your door any minute now
If Mr Pooh was personally overseeing my day to day I'd feel pretty special
That’s my business.
Meanwhile, my employer forces me to use Chrome or Edge. Ugh.
Tell them you can't as your active X scripts only run under IE6.
If it's for work I don't have a problem, it's the company that's giving their data to the spyware, just don't give it too much personal information
I hear this all the time. I have this conversation on the regular.
Them: "Oh you think Tik Tok is spyware?"
Me: "yes"
Them: "I'll have you know so is Google, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Microsoft, and all the big American companies too"
Me: "Yeah, that's why I don't use them"
Them: gasp "you're just paranoid bro are you a drug dealer or something?"
Me: "no, I just like my privacy. You probably wouldn't like it if some guy was following you keeping tabs about everything you do either."
Them: "well I've got nothing to hide"
Me: "maybe the next person in power might see your current and past beliefs illegal"
Them: "my favourite political party will stay in power forever"
The fact that you have nothing to hide doesn't imply I've to open up anything to anyone without my approval.
And that's the key here, we are not fully aware of the randomized distribution of your own data for profit.
Just ask them if they have curtains or blinds on their windows at home. They have nothing to hide, right?
Me: "do you close the bathroom door while shitting?"
Them: "yes"
Me: "why? You have nothing to hide"
Anyone who even compares a for profit corportation to the world's largest hostile militaristic dictatorship is an idiot. Both bad, but on completely different scales.
US looks very militaristic to me. It has a very broken democracy, and a history of supporting/causing brutal dictatorships.
The control the Chinese gov has over tiktok is on a different scale compared to Google and the US
The things the CCP could do with political blackmail gathered from tiktok would make even Zuck blush.
At the very least, Google and Facebook have to step back if caught. Meanwhile, Chinese companies often don't care about EU privacy laws. Still avoid them altogether, any way.
Thank you, this is my viewpoint exactly. We are exploited by both but one is after money, the other is a threat.
God when the whole Tiktok thing in Congress was going on nobody wanted to hear that their favorite big tech social media app was already selling information to China; had been caught doing so multiple times; and had never stopped despite promises and threats of prosecution the next time.
Android phones looking nervously around.
At least u can put custom firmware on android phones, try to get rid of Apple spyware is much harder.
You cannot put custom firmware. If spyware is hidden in drivers, bootloader or even firmware of the modem there is nothing we can do about it. Custom ROMs are just replacing things above the kernel and below apps.
Still of course things average non CIA person should not worry about. Google apps with high privileges are removed with custom ROMs.
well at this point just get a pinphone64 with linux a d hardware switches
Media platforms are beyond spying. You have nothing to offer.
It's all about controlling information and feeding you what you need to see.
My brother in Christ I use Firefox
Remember to use also a privacy respecting search engine like searx or at least duckduckgo
Jokes on you I don’t use either ^i ^use ^discord ^and ^windows ^instead
I still use discord, can't just leave gaming with my friends and I already look too much like a paranoid to convince them to switch to matrix or another FLOSS service
There’s Revolt and TeamSpeak aswell. The latter is proprietary, but the audio quality is something to behold.
Chinease is an enzyme, but I don't know what it does.
I only use true blue American spyware
You're not getting it. TikTok is crude, targeting anything that comes in its way, like a shotgun.
Google is like a sniper rifle, that is also a shotgun.
Now, which would you prefer, the shotgun, or the sniper rifle that is also a shotgun.
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