Snarfing the clipboards, reverse proxies, sensor inputs, images. PRC gold!
Now dub that over the guy from the 90s movie Hackers, and you've got yourself a TikTok! Or "Freedom Short" as they might be rebranded soon once they get banned
TikTok’s greatest asset isn’t its algorithm, it’s your phone
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#32Even if TikTok were suddenly wiped off every phone on the planet, a competitor would take its place. TikTok simply takes advantage of people's desire to be entertained and apathy over privacy issues.
Thinking the market is always split into discrete niches based on current landscape you will never come up with an actual innovation. There could be product(s) that address the desire to be entertained in various ways without being like TikTok or taking its exact niche.
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#33I'm flabbergasted by the appeal Tiktok apparently has over the average Joe. I can't stand it. Vertical videos, combined with the exact duration of a short term memory loss affected person's attention span, make me want to throw my eyes into a furnace. I block Youtube shorts for this same stupid reason, even great channels can't resist Google's whip "incentivizing" them to make these AMAZING short vertical pieces of s…
I am also really surprised by its popularity. I understand entertainment, don't mind watching something fun. But don't get the appeal of very short videos - it's just annoying. No real story, no characters, no (deeper) meaning. It's like reading a collection of jokes instead of a novel. It's ok for 5 minutes I suppose, but for several hours every day? Hm.
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#34It's about time we made some social network legislation akin to tobacco/gambling restrictions.
Yes because the War on Drugs has worked wonders. Any law that is passed to restrict people from doing something that only harms themselves ends up being applied unevenly and usually only affects the poor/minorities.
See “the War on Drugs”
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#35TikTok Android data collected: https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.zhiliao...
- Location
- Personal info: Name, Email, User IDs, Address, Phone Number
- Financial info: User payment info, purchase history, other financial info
- Messages: Other in-app messages
- Photos & Videos
- Audio voice & sound recordings
- Contacts
- App activity: App interactions, in-app search history, other user generated content
- Web browsing history
- App info and performance: Crash logs, diagnostics, other performance data
- Device or other IDs
TikTok iOS data collected: https://apps.apple.com/ug/app/tiktok-videos-music-live/id835...
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Financial Info: Payment Info, Other Financial Info
- Location
- Contact Info: Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info
- Contacts
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Audio Data, Customer Support, Other User Content
- Search History
- Browsing History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Re: TikTok’s greatest asset isn’t its algorithm, it’s your phone
#36Did you install this app on your phone and give it all access? Well, that's on you, good luck. Wouldn't want to be ya.
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#37There are two types of people: Those who have used TikTok, and those who haven't (but are nevertheless engaged in a full-on satanic panic / red scare over it).
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#38I'm finally in a place where the only website I religiously check is HN. Because of it's nature, for me, it never takes up more than a few minutes every couple of hours. It took hard work to get there. I use Nextdns to block domains of websites and apps when I realize I spend too much time on them. Could I just allowlist domains, sure, and sometimes I do that when I need to look at something on Reddit for instance. B…
I'm trying to get off of hackernews during the day. I'm thinking about just having some other reading material by my side, like an academic paper or a book to work through when I need to take a break.
We'll see how it goes. I just don't need to be checking hackernews as often as I do.
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#39Same holds true for Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.
Bingo. Every argument made against it applies to the rest of them, it’s just beating them at their own game.
Except for one: it comes from China. Some people will admit that this is their problem with it, many pretend the app itself is somehow especially evil. Which is silly of course.
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#40It's about time we made some social network legislation akin to tobacco/gambling restrictions.
Yes because the War on Drugs has worked wonders. Any law that is passed to restrict people from doing something that only harms themselves ends up being applied unevenly and usually only affects the poor/minorities. See “the War on Drugs”
Heavy taxes, plain packaging and other measures helped halve tobacco consumption over some 16 years in Australia. I have no issue with poor people having better mental and lung health.