[vonneumannstan]

>"Advertising pixels are industry standard and used widely across social and media platforms"

Where is the lie?

[bonsai_spool]

> TikTok empowers users with transparent information about its privacy practices and gives them multiple tools to customise their experience," a TikTok spokesperson says. "Advertising pixels are industry standard and used widely across social and media platforms"

- Are we really empowered to stop being surveilled?

- Does the customization of my experience have any bearing with the actual allegation of tracking non-users on the internet?

- Are advertising pixels transparently shown to those who never have been on TikTok but are monitored all the same?

(edit: To be clear, Doublespeak isn't about a lie as much as words losing their entire meaning and being used to hide truth with comfortable phrasinggs)

[unethical_ban]

If it's not a lie, it is still an immoral practice.

The article details how Tiktok is using the tracking to collect data on non-tiktok users to build profiles of people without their consent, and trying to say that people consent to it in their "downflow" usage of sites that have tiktok embeds.

Again, even if others are doing it, it's shitty and unethical.

[vonneumannstan]

Lots to blame Tiktok for but I believe this is completely ubiquitous across the internet. Every major brand with a digital marketing department does this.