Where the TikTok refugees are going
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wrote on 20 Jan 2025, 20:43 last edited by
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wrote on 20 Jan 2025, 20:49 last edited by
Don’t all websites do that sort of tracking?
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Don’t all websites do that sort of tracking?
wrote on 20 Jan 2025, 21:15 last edited by@Steve-Miller mostly likely, yes.
FB tracks your "off FB" activity. You have to opt out, which is the biggest load of BS.
Here are the instructions I used:
Open the Facebook app or website
Select your profile picture
Go to Settings & Privacy
Select Settings
Select Your information and permissions
Select Your activity off Meta
Select Manage Future Activity
Select Disconnect future activity
Select Continue
Select Confirm
To clear your history, you can:
Go to the Off-Facebook Activity screen
Select Clear History
To turn off your active status, you can:
Go to Settings
Select Active Status
Select Turn off -
wrote on 20 Jan 2025, 21:20 last edited by wtg
Here's a non-technical version of what goes on behind the scenes.
And something from Wired:
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-data-privacy/
Don’t all websites do that sort of tracking?
Yea. Except TikTok has the connection to the Chinese government.
Now that we're in the new administration and the tech bros are bowing to TFG, who knows what information Microsoft, Facebook, and Google will pass along to the government.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 09:05 last edited by Daniel
I'm repeating myself but Temu another a Chinese tech company collects the isame information as TikTok.
All Chinese companies have a connection to the Chinese government.
All American companies have a connection to the American government.
American tech companies, the Internet itself, Google, etc. were invented by the US military and US intelligence.
My personal opinion is you can toggle on and off anything you want and it won't make a difference.
Listen to a video by a true expert (e g. Edward Snowdon) and you'll inevitably hear cellphones spy on you and there's no way you can stop them.
You used to be able to take the battery out and the tracking would stop. My understanding is this doesn't work now even in the rare event you have a phone will a removable battery.
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I'm repeating myself but Temu another a Chinese tech company collects the isame information as TikTok.
All Chinese companies have a connection to the Chinese government.
All American companies have a connection to the American government.
American tech companies, the Internet itself, Google, etc. were invented by the US military and US intelligence.
My personal opinion is you can toggle on and off anything you want and it won't make a difference.
Listen to a video by a true expert (e g. Edward Snowdon) and you'll inevitably hear cellphones spy on you and there's no way you can stop them.
You used to be able to take the battery out and the tracking would stop. My understanding is this doesn't work now even in the rare event you have a phone will a removable battery.
wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 12:53 last edited by@Daniel said in Where the TikTok refugees are going:
... the Internet itself, ... were invented by the US military and US intelligence.
Hmm ... maybe that can be used to scare the CCP into not using the Internet at all.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 19:24 last edited by
Lol, Ax!