Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them.
Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19218127
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12778902
They'll still get it. They're scraping the entire web. You don't need an account with anyone, or to visit any specific site. It's all wide open, and tracking techniques are more sophisticated than ever before. Google is violating W3C best practices with Chrome to hoard more data, and others will likely exploit those weaknesses as well.