cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/3776099
Not to mention voluntarily installing some of the worst spyware...
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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TikTok isn't great, but it's hardly the "worst spyware".
Here is a comparison of actual spyware threats and different apps.
Here is the report itself regarding TEMU and how it actually IS spyware.
I think in this particular case the problem isn't so much the spyware side of things as the content of the videos, and the trends which makes videos popular on tiktok, which aren't conducive to the promotion of factual content at all.