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A comment on Ask HN: Do you consider TikTok worse than Google for collecting data on you?.

Re:Ask HN: Do you consider TikTok worse than Google for coll... by brucethemoose2 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:04PM (#34985911)
My issue with TikTok is its a walled garden.

I can search Google, or Alphabet services like YouTube, anyonymously or with a reasonable degree of privacy. I cant do that on TikTok, because it basically only works logged into the app, and all the content is within TikTok.

I guess you could account swap on TikTok to keep the "interests" separate, but I don't really trust that since you are still bound to the app.

But that is not unique to TikTok. Discord and Facebook suffer from the same issue.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you consider TikTok worse than Google for coll... by zamnos on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:10PM (#34986016)
Am I holding it wrong? Watching TikTok videos via links people have sent me, or that have come up via Google search (just add TikTok to your search), in an incognito window of Chrome, seems to work just fine.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you consider TikTok worse than Google for coll... by brucethemoose2 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:25PM (#34986254)
No I think I am holding it wrong... maybe it is getting blocked or broken by a blocker.
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