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TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

thecopy wrote: post #100
izacus wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

American legal system will curb stomp any tiny company on the other side of the world if they dare to draw an outline of Mickey Mouse, and you're saying that this same nation can't stop big abusive companies?

The big companies simply gives the predisent of the USA a made-up peace prize or a gold Rolex and get exempted.

I didn't realize how big a loophole existed in the American legal system until this current president. It's basically entirely up to the president which federal laws get enforced, and against whom. Congress is entirely powerless, unless they can get 67 senators to convict during impeachment. It's the only lever they have.

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Post by ehnto »

vkou wrote: post #69
ehnto wrote: post #48

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They don't have to collude, the third party advertisers that collate and provide shadow profiles do that work for them.

The advertisers don't get the raw data feeds necessary to do that.

What raw data do you mean? They get so much data, it's hard for me to imagine anything that might be missing relevant to this context to be honest.

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Post by mac-attack »

gruez wrote: post #61
mac-attack wrote: post #43

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I hate to sound like a those pesky Kagi supporters, but that is built into Graphene OS.

It's not, though. If you deny location permissions the app will still know and pester you to enable. Same with other sensitive permissions with the exception of internet.

Isn't that a moot point with the graphene location proxy tool?

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Post by wkat4242 »

mejutoco wrote: post #106
wkat4242 wrote: post #86

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Do you have to share your location with it? I don't use it but similar apps like Instagram don't have my location permission.

Wifi ssids around you might be enough.

That shouldn't be accessible without location permission, that loophole was fixed a long time ago.

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Post by dkga »

mc3301 wrote: post #12
thisisthenewme wrote: post #6

I 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…

If I could double upvote for the content and the reference, I would

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Post by fragmede »

Aurornis wrote: post #65
fragmede wrote: post #39

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How's the dating scene where you are? Whatever bubble I'm in, in the US, while I could not be on Instagram, that would be making things harder on myself.

I’m curious what you mean by this. Most of the guys I know treat their Instagram accounts like their LinkedIn accounts: It has enough information and occasional updates with major life changes, but they don’t actively engage with it all the time. Just let it exist and respond to any messages if they come in. Would that work, or are you saying the dating scene in your area requires some type of active constant engagem…

Some level of engagement with it, anyway. Only having one post from 7 years isn't going to do you want favors, but I'm not saying you need to be on it 97 hours a day either. But the younger crowd seems to favor that app as a first level of contact, and you can escalate (as welcome) from there.

If you steadfastly refuse to have one, it seems like it'd be the same as trying with job seeking without a LinkedIn. Which you can do, but it seems like making things harder than they need to be when things are already difficult.

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Post by gruez »

mac-attack wrote: post #125
gruez wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not, though. If you deny location permissions the app will still know and pester you to enable. Same with other sensitive permissions with the exception of internet.

Isn't that a moot point with the graphene location proxy tool?

Are you talking about their network location provider? That doesn't do anything to spoof location. It just allows querying apple (optionally via graphenos proxy) for the location of nearby wifi networks, rather than going through google play services. Apps can still figure out whether you denied location permissions.
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