(yes, I also see that it says Chinease)
TikTok is Chinese spyware. Chrome is American spyware. Anyone in their right mind should stop using both.
sometimes it’s nice to know that someone’s watching over me tho
Is your kink getting watched over the shoulder by a big oily fat guy that sweats and breaths through the mouth? Ah and it tries to convince you the buy useless shit
Sort of… how did you know??
Do you think it’s safe to upvote this?
Your social credit score went into the red as soon as you saw that picture, it doesn’t matter anymore, it’s already too late for you
They’ll be knocking on your door any minute now
If Mr Pooh was personally overseeing my day to day I’d feel pretty special
That’s my business.
and I have no privacy (oh ohoh)
Meanwhile, my employer forces me to use Chrome or Edge. Ugh.
Tell them you can’t as your active X scripts only run under IE6.
If it’s for work I don’t have a problem, it’s the company that’s giving their data to the spyware, just don’t give it too much personal information
I hear this all the time. I have this conversation on the regular.
Them: “Oh you think Tik Tok is spyware?”
Me: “yes”
Them: “I’ll have you know so is Google, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Microsoft, and all the big American companies too”
Me: “Yeah, that’s why I don’t use them”
Them: gasp “you’re just paranoid bro are you a drug dealer or something?”
Me: “no, I just like my privacy. You probably wouldn’t like it if some guy was following you keeping tabs about everything you do either.”
Them: “well I’ve got nothing to hide”
Me: “maybe the next person in power might see your current and past beliefs illegal”
Them: “my favourite political party will stay in power forever”
The fact that you have nothing to hide doesn’t imply I’ve to open up anything to anyone without my approval.
And that’s the key here, we are not fully aware of the randomized distribution of your own data for profit.
Just ask them if they have curtains or blinds on their windows at home. They have nothing to hide, right?
Me: “do you close the bathroom door while shitting?”
Them: “yes”
Me: “why? You have nothing to hide”
You lock your doors when wanking?
I always lock my car doors when wanking
Me: You’ve got nothing to hide? What’s you’re address I need to get a pair of binoculars
Foreign spyware is stealing jobs from hardworking American spyware.
This should be a campaign line for 2024
That’s America spyware. I have standards. /s
Doing at least n amount of spying each day
“But at least is LOCAL spyware 😎”
Which honestly to me seems worse right I mean its potentially going to someone who is much closer to you geographically (not always of course).
Me using an android phone and an iPad.
God when the whole Tiktok thing in Congress was going on nobody wanted to hear that their favorite big tech social media app was already selling information to China; had been caught doing so multiple times; and had never stopped despite promises and threats of prosecution the next time.
WHAT information? What does China gain by learning that Sparky Douchebag watches BBQ and catgirl fapping videos? Are they planning their invasion based on the Heathers Challenge, or simply stealing our makeup tips?
Search the company Tencent.
Then look at how many shares they have on companies around the world.
And then think about it. What power does Google have? What power probably Tencent has.
Look into the research that has proven that the app has backdoors baked in, and combine that with how widespread it is - reaching every level of society; every industry, politician, branch and level of the military. Now remember that research into the Spyware activities of the app.
TikTok is the largest, most successful self-inflicted virus for SigInt ever. [citation needed]
That doesnt answer my question. What information?
Look, it’s not what bs viral video the algorithm is feeding these people. It’s the spyware it’s putting on the phones. It has been proven that the app harvests all the data it can find and phones it home. Backdoor root-level access has also been proven. If you can’t figure out why that would be bad, you probably have problems pouring water out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
I dont know why nobody seems to be able to answer this simple question:
WHAT DATA?!!
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I havent seen anything on it that’s any different from Alex Jones’ christofascist tantrums, Kanye’s Hitler rants, or Tomi Lauren trying to pretend she’s a patriot blowup doll
Android phones looking nervously around.
At least u can put custom firmware on android phones, try to get rid of Apple spyware is much harder.
You cannot put custom firmware. If spyware is hidden in drivers, bootloader or even firmware of the modem there is nothing we can do about it. Custom ROMs are just replacing things above the kernel and below apps.
Still of course things average non CIA person should not worry about. Google apps with high privileges are removed with custom ROMs.
well at this point just get a pinphone64 with linux a d hardware switches
Might as well. I will never be satisfied with custom ROMs. I need straight up linux on my phone and none of that android crap.
I thought android had its own bootloader and I assume drivers (At least Linux has its own drivers). To my understanding if android phones have a bios that’s the only thing that could be compromised but it should just provide the interrupts right? Now that I think about it if Google put a huge bios in there it might be able to access and share things it’s not supposed to. (But I feel like people would have noticed.)
*Laughs in GrapheneOS*
As a person that has been rooting his phone since 2011/12, I wanna go back to those years. Graphene and lineage have not satisfied my itch and having to keep magisking every few weeks sucks. I miss my galaxy, nexus rooting days.
Media platforms are beyond spying. You have nothing to offer.
It’s all about controlling information and feeding you what you need to see.
What you want to see
I honestly doubt that you have full control over that
Sure I do, I can change channels
Anyone using Firefox is a W to me.
Waterfox, too
W?
W = win
L = lossUser name checks out!
She’ll promise you more than the garden of Eden
Then she’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleedin’
But she’ll bring out the best - and the worst - you can be
Blame it all on yourself 'cause she’s always a woman to me
Jokes on you I don’t use either ^i ^use ^discord ^and ^windows ^instead
I still use discord, can’t just leave gaming with my friends and I already look too much like a paranoid to convince them to switch to matrix or another FLOSS service
There’s Revolt and TeamSpeak aswell. The latter is proprietary, but the audio quality is something to behold.
Wow teamspeak is still a thing? I remember using them back in 03-05 in my CS clan days before even source came out. I’m fuckin old.
It is indeed still a thing. They’re trying their damndest to evolve and move with the times.
Who needs teamspeak garbage when mumble exists?
Revolt is a good alternative. It’s not perfect right now though. The android app just redirects you to its website.
tbf Discord on all platforms just… is a website…
Yeah but you can filter some of its trackers
My brother in Christ I use Firefox
Remember to use also a privacy respecting search engine like searx or at least duckduckgo
I use DDG but it sucks because I am a dude on the move and DDG does not allow voice to text
I like startpage. It ain’t perfect, but it’s better than using Google and co.
Chinease is an enzyme, but I don’t know what it does.
It breaks down china.
The enzyme seems to only work every few centuries
Or whenever the bull passes through.
I only use true blue American spyware
tok bad
It’s chineasy to pick on the clock
Ye
But what if I have another religion?
Praying to Lauren Faust??
Fausticorn, Bonniecorn and Twilight Sparkle
