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Re:Rethinking the App Store by Hendrikto on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @05:11AM (#24280622)
> with apps like tiktok stealing clipboard content

I do not get the focus on TikTok. Yes, it read your clipboard content… just like Snapchat, Instagram, Reddit, etc. Most security researchers agree that TikTok is among the more restrained social media apps, when it comes to gathering user data.

This is a bad look for the social media landscape in general, not TikTok specifically.

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Re:Rethinking the App Store by supermatt on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @05:46AM (#24280853)
to be honest, it was just that tiktok was publicised as doing so. I have nothing against tiktok, and do not like this witch hunt myself - it was just a recent example.
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Re:Rethinking the App Store by dna_polymerase on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @05:18AM (#24280657)
But TikTok is Chinese and therefore bad. At least that is what the orange man tells us.

Surveillance capitalism is an American invention, China just copied that.

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Re:Rethinking the App Store by Semaphor on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @05:35AM (#24280771)
> At least that is what the orange man tells us.

Considering how many hate him here and still repeat the official US talking points wrt TikTok, I don’t think you can blame him in that case.

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