TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you – but some easy steps can keep you safe.

TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you – but some easy steps can keep you safe.

  • flameleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    214·
    6 days ago

    The article mentions them putting tracking pixels on other websites. Bold of them to try tracking me when I don’t even have a TikTok account.

      • Kjell@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Yeah, we should assume that all big tech companies are taking us everywhere and all the time.

        From the article:

        According to DuckDuckGo, a privacy company, TikTok has trackers on 5% of the world’s top websites. That number has grown steadily, though it’s nothing compared to Google with trackers on almost 72% of top websites and Meta at about 21%.

    • a14o@feddit.orgEnglish
      14·
      6 days ago

      From the article:

      But most people might not realise that TikTok holds data about them even if they have never used the social media platform.

      Websites that use pixels send data about every single visitor, so it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a TikTok account.