Joe Reviews TikTok’s Crazy Terms of Service

I am more shocked that people are shocked by this then anything else. If the service is free you are the product, its been this way since the start.

Theo Von has really become one my favourite entertainers. He doesnt try to be smart or intellectual he is just himself

What Theo said about them cutting off buyers from going to the real or original product site is what they do on amazon like crazy. They actually steal a product design then force your site to like page 500 while they fill the first 400 plus pages with their sites all taking you to the same place

I’ve been an enterprise software developer for almost 10 years. TikTok’s terms are not uncommon. Google, Facebook, Apple, and other popular apps collect this this data as well. The part that stuck out to me is the conspiracy that the app was created to collect your data. I’m certain upon it’s inception the app did not collect this type of data, but as it gained popularity the company saw an opportunity to begin collecting and monetizing user data as an additional revenue stream. Most popular apps do the same thing because it is profitable. To reiterate, if the app/service is “free” then profits are being generated from something whether you are aware of it or not.

Joe: “They had network devices that were stealing data”
Theo: “Fancy!”

Theo reminds me of my group of friends in high school: honestly unaware and curious of things. On one hand, it’s cool to see him make realizations in real time. On the other hand, Im kinda sad he didn’t have a based or overly-intellectual friend to teach him some of this

1:35 it doesn’t really mean they can suck data off your other computers but it does give them the right to associate the information on the devices that you log in with to other devices that you may not have used for TikTok if they for whatever reason have collected that data through a third party source or through logging I previously. Essentially they can compare your behaviors on your different devices. So essentially any device that you used to log into tick tock they have full access to everything about that device and all of your personal files. And they also have the right to compare any of that information to any other devices that you’ve used to log into Tic Tac in the past or information on other devices they may have acquired through outside sources.

The bottom line to the question of “what are they spying on us for?” is simply WE. DON’T. KNOW. But what people don’t seem to understand is that THAT IS THE POINT of finding vulnerabilities. I Information Security it’s considered a Zero Day exploit. We are giving so much information that we can’t keep track of what exploits they may be able to find.

Deleted tiktok about 8-9 months ago. Started messing with my attention span and how often I caught myself doing nothing but being on my phone. Crazy thing is a lot of non-Chinese peoples’ timelines or whatever are full of crap while Chinese people have timelines full of intelligent stuff like science and math and such

Had a new “holy shit Google listens to everything I say” moment last week. I lied to my boss, on Saturday about the reason I was late. I told him In a message I had to bring my car to the vet before I came in. Did it through text message. When I got to work I gave a story on how every vet in town was closed, so I had to drive to next town to get seen. Within 30 minites of that conversation the asked me to review the specific vet I only mentioned in a conversation had face to face . I still have the notification up. Freaks me out every time I see it.