Has anyone actually looked at their network traffic whilst TikTok is running? I've already isolated my partners phone because it's so bad.
I am against blocking shit online but since it's being done against my will at least it's that shit hole.
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2024
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I've worked in mobile development before. We hide the traffic by batching it, sending it through i.e. Google Play Services (so it looks like Google traffic), or simply sending it all to a relay server so it doesn't look diverse. In any case, all your apps are doing this, and the ones that want to hide it, can.
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Shit site, but not a legal precedent we want to be setting.
The biggest problem is them doing illegal shit like scanning all your photos instead of just what you pick
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This week on How to Raise an Entire Generation With an Intimate Knowledge of Counter-Surveillance: Ban Their Favourite Social Media!
This week on the Effectiveness of Foreign Influence Campaigns on Impressionable Youths: Young people refuse to even consider that TikTok might be bad.
Next week on effectiveness of foreign influence campaigns: muricans don't spy on me. Except when they do it's for my own good and protection. Except if it's not for my own good it's important to sell my data so they keep running. Except when they accept state agents to buy ad in bulk to influence elections
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ITT: Braindeads defending government censorship of the internet as if Zuckerberg won't immediately replace the void with his own platform or by buying out TikTok in a bid.
Banning one platform would not magically get rid of short attention span and brainrot you fools. Every social media company already copied or utilizes the same techniques as TikTok, which is already a massive platform because they don't spam ban or regulate content as hard as Facebook and YouTube do.
It is insulting that a Chinese run social media platform provides more freedom of speech online than its US competitors.
They're banning it to remove competition, congress does not care about its effects on privacy or health, otherwise they'd have done something about Faceebook, Insta, Twiiter, and YouTube decades ago. They pulled their usual committee shenanigans to pretend to care by calling in CEOs to testify, and then promptly accepting a shitload of lobbying money.
Agree on this except I have doubts that this statement is true
It is insulting that a Chinese run social media platform provides more freedom of speech online than its US competitors.
Yeah tiktok is the reason we have words like unalive, I wouldnt call it freedom of speech just incompetent moderation.
Words like "unalive" are a form of doublespeak just to get around the restrictions, it's silly.
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Absolutely none of this law was ever about privacy or mental health. No one ever claimed it was. The law is banning tiktok because it is based in China. That is the reason given by the law itself. The possibility that meta or Google or some other American company will buy or replace tiktok and operate the same way is not an unintended outcome. It is literally the whole point of the law to get bytedance to sell tiktok to an American company.
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The fuck is the point of banning tiktok if the Chinese government already hacked our entire communication network lol
They aren’t banning it because China can see what you put on it, they’re banning it because China can control what you see from it.
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Theater.
Cybersec is hard. There are always more holes. China exports a LOT of stuff with holes. We can do little more than stick our fingers in the dyke. This looks like they're doing something.
What they're not going to expect is how much people hate them for taking their entertainment away.
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This is only great news if you are Mark Zuckerberg and you want a near-monopoly on social media.
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Ha, eat that China! Now you need to pay millions to American oligarchs for all our user data!
USA!
Honestly, I don't see any downsides to this. Tiktok and Instagram are horrible platforms that are actively hurting, and in some cases killing, young teens. Sure, they did it for propaganda reasons, but that doesn't mean it's not a net positive.
For me the downside is the precedent it sets. Yes, most of us agree getting rid of TikTok is a good thing, but how long until they start banning other sites "for the children"? How long until they target federated sites they can't control "for the children"?
To top it off, it doesn't solve the data harvesting problem their so scared of with TikTok. They only care about that one because the data is going to China. Instagram and others can stay because they are American companies spying on citizens.
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I am rubbing my nipples in anticipation of the FLOOD of pissed off teenagers who don't know how to human without sharing their dances now.
.........can someone explain the point of overlaying closed captions over the center of the video, but one word at a time fast paced?
I'm on the spectrum. I can process reading way, WAY faster than I can process someone just audibly speaking to me. That shit's actually helpful. I admit, it doesn't need to be in the center of the video though.
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....the same shit is on Facebook.
The same exact mindless drivel bullshit.
They don't care what the content or format is, just who owns it, and where the data is flowing. They want the data flowing into the U.S. and sold out. Rather than into China and sold out. That's all it is.
Short videos are dumb. Are people really that addicted? I have it and go on it sometimes. And by sometimes I mean like 10 minutes per week. The videos are OK at best, but half of them are ads or live weird shit and the search function for relevant topics are trash.
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