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TikTok allegedly monitoring users' Grindr activity, digital rights group claims (www.thepinknews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

holy shit!? for real? you mean all those people who said "don't use tiktok because they're spying on you" were totally wrong then, but now they're right?

huh, imagine that!

[–] RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I am sure TikTok monitors literally everything it possibly can just like all the other fuck stick tech companies.

[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I was thinking how the hell does an app track another apps' activity? So they allegedly used AppsFlyer, which is a Mobile Measurement Partner (MMP).

Companies like Grindr use it for tracking ads, it basically tells whether a user that clicked on a Grindr ad on Tiktok lead to a successful install of their app. They have to install an SDK for that. Apparently it wasn't just tracking that.