• k_o_t
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    TikTok is literally designed to learn your preferences for content, from which a lot more sensitive information can be inferred, like very detailed information about your psychology, which can later be used for all kinds of scary shit. Reddit certainly has tracking, but I don’t think it’s as bad…

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      TikTok is literally designed to learn your preferences for content

      Reddit does this too. Maybe not as invasively, but they do it, especially for choosing which ads to serve you. They also do show you “recommended” content and “recommended” subreddits, especially if you use the app or the new webclient. You can apparently turn it off somewhat but how much you trust that is your call.

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        Yes, but I think that much much more information can be extracted with context preference with TikTok, than if, say, a person clicks on a suggested subreddit or not most and other suggested content…

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          True, but I think it’s fair to say that both sites use the same “(lack of) privacy model”, just to different extents.

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            Sure. Buy that was kind of my point: They’re both bad, but TikTok is badder.

            Anyway, beyond this point it’s just conjecture and we can’t really prove much.

            reddit bad tiktok bad