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Can you tell me how TikTok is grabbing your passwords without an account, and outside of their app or website? I need an account for Facebook/Instagram, not TikTok.
Do you understand the difference between needing an account versus not needing one for a service? It is wider than the Grand Canyon. That is why I provided those links, and that is why it is critical to note the lack of personal identifier data grabbing with not needing an account. With one, you give phone number, contact book, IMEI, location data, email, some name or pseudonym et al. With the other, none.
Edit: since you have poked the bear, I will growl.
Facebook/Instagram data collection on a user is more than a TikTok user, even if there is an account on both services. On top of this, TikTok does not have tracking pixels, ad networks, CDN and other methods of tracking on other websites, unlike Facebook ecosystem. This allows Facebook ecosystem to correlate, interlink and form data clusters on users and IP addresses. Remember how Facebook ecosystem disallows accountless access? Or how they C&D'd Barinsta developer Austin Huang, citing they dislike anonymous access to Instagram?
This is precisely what makes TikTok objectively so harmless without an account, and even with an account, relatively far less harmful. It does not mean TikTok does not collect data, but the difference is too wide. These are the facts.
And your petty downvote makes it seem like this is too much to swallow.
Tiktok is Chinese spyware.
Facebook is American spyware.
Stop using them!
End of story.
When you grow older, you start to see 2+2 is always not 4. It can be 3 or 5 too.
I'll bet I'm older than you.
Its pretty obvious isn't it?
Old people are also immature, and age is not a determinant of maturity and intelligence. One who deals with things by putting them in boxes in their head, is never a person worthy of listening to.
Ok Junior.
Mhm, using teenager tactics like gaslighting? You know that is not a very nice netiquette, right? Thought Reddit and 4chan behaviours would be a thing of the past on Lemmy.