https://docs.pi-hole.net/docker/
Pi-Hole only works when the tracking / ad scripts are hosted from different domains than the actual content.
TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
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Re: TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
#12I guess it's pretty much impossible to stop these companies from gathering data, there's too much money in it, it's too easy to implement, and there's no cohesive force to stop them. I'm wondering whether a crowdfunded effort to feed fake data into these systems would work so we overwhelm them and make their plans a bit more difficult.
"The only winning move is not to play."
If you look at these systems that same way some people look at casinos - places specifically designed to take your money - you realize there isn't a way to change them nor improve your overall experience with them. You just don't go inside. I'm kinda hoping that it becomes the trend in the next few decades to completely abandon these algorithm-driven data-hoarding attention-stealing apps. I've been calling it "digital hygiene", personally.
Re: TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
#13https://docs.pi-hole.net/docker/
Pi-Hole only works when the tracking / ad scripts are hosted from different domains than the actual content.
Don't worry, when you blackhole the entire tiktok domain, you'll still be able to use grindr.
Or did you still want to be able to view tiktok?
Sorry. Can't help you there. Or can I? https://www.torproject.org/download/ or https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/proton-vpn-fast-sec...
Re: TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
#14I'll post some inside baseball:
Almost everyone in ecom is running every ad network integration they can, no matter the source of traffic.
So if you click a Facebook ad, load a website, enter your information/checkout ALL of your information goes to every other network they integrate with.
You might never use TikTok, you might have every Facebook domain blacklisted, but when you clicked on a Google search "result" (ad) and checked out everything about your order was sent to meta/tiktok/applovin/400 other "networks" via S2S APIs.
Until this is made illegal, the incentive structure will ALWAYS push marketing departments to do this.
Re: TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
#15Pretty sure TikTok and Instagram are sharing data somehow as well. My feeds are near identical.
I don't know, maybe they are colluding, but it is funny to default to that assumption over both platforms just delivering you the same content because you have the same behavior across both apps.
Re: TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pi-Hole only works when the tracking / ad scripts are hosted from different domains than the actual content.
Don't worry, when you blackhole the entire tiktok domain, you'll still be able to use grindr. Or did you still want to be able to view tiktok? Sorry. Can't help you there. Or can I? https://www.torproject.org/download/ or https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/proton-vpn-fast-sec...
TikTok will de-anonymize you and connect you back to the ad networks in days, speaking as someone who tried really, really hard to not get it to do that.
They probably have the most sophisticated fingerprinting ever created.
Re: TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
#17That earnest congressional testimony by the CEO looks pretty bad at this point. Either he was lying or doesn’t know anything about how his company works.
Re: TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
#18I don't think any app or service can hold a candle to the data harvesting of dating apps. Social media knows your likes and dislikes, but dating apps knows your deepest desires and wants.
Re: TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
#19I guess it's pretty much impossible to stop these companies from gathering data, there's too much money in it, it's too easy to implement, and there's no cohesive force to stop them. I'm wondering whether a crowdfunded effort to feed fake data into these systems would work so we overwhelm them and make their plans a bit more difficult.
"The only winning move is not to play." If you look at these systems that same way some people look at casinos - places specifically designed to take your money - you realize there isn't a way to change them nor improve your overall experience with them. You just don't go inside. I'm kinda hoping that it becomes the trend in the next few decades to completely abandon these algorithm-driven data-hoarding attention-ste…
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Re: TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
#20Some state needs to pass an explicit consent law, since consent is too hard of a concept for Silicon Valley and other startups to understand.