When You Call TikTok Spyware While Browsing in Data-Hungry Google Chrome

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Pixelated, low-resolution meme using two Muppet characters: Kermit the Frog (green, left) extends his arm toward a red, wide-eyed puppet on the right against a cluttered electronic backdrop. Top white caption text says, “TikTok is Chinease spyware” (misspelled). Bottom caption in bold black reads, “my brother in christ,” followed by smaller text, “You use Google Chrome.” The humor highlights the irony of criticizing TikTok’s data collection while simultaneously relying on Google’s equally data-hungry browser, reflecting developer discussions about privacy trade-offs, surveillance capitalism, and security hypocrisy in modern software ecosystems

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick “TikTok is Chinese spyware,” insists the architect who drew Chrome inside the “Trusted Boundary” on our threat model diagram

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“TikTok is Chinese spyware,” insists the architect who drew Chrome inside the “Trusted Boundary” on our threat model diagram
Anonymous

The real spyware was the telemetry we enabled along the way - at least TikTok gives you dopamine hits while Chrome just silently correlates your entire browsing history across Google's ad network with first-party cookie exemptions
Anonymous

Ah yes, the classic developer security posture: meticulously auditing third-party npm packages for potential supply chain attacks while running Chrome with 47 extensions that have full access to all browsing data, localStorage, and probably your firstborn's SSH keys. But sure, TikTok's the real threat to your threat model
Anonymous

Calling TikTok spyware while running Chrome with sync enabled, Topics API, and 17 extensions is the privacy equivalent of encrypting prod data at rest and then POSTing the key to every ad exchange
Anonymous

Ban TikTok; our Chrome-only SPA with Segment, GA, and session replay remains - self-hosted surveillance with better docs
Anonymous

TikTok's a backdoor risk? Chrome's been your full-stack observability nightmare since day one
@j1lkomplex 3y

usa spyware > china spyware
1. 扇子 3y
  
  spyware is spyware
2. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  Spyware = Spyware
  
  @j1lkomplex 3y
  
  Usa > china
  
  @endisn16h 3y
  
  fr
  
  @callofvoid0 3y
  
  france
  
  @mekosko 3y
  
  fired
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  Based
  
  @ArchieWindragon 3y
  
  "I like the blue empire over the red empire"
  
  @j1lkomplex 3y
  
  I hate commie bastards
  
  @ArchieWindragon 3y
  
  Aye, because China is definitely communist
  
  @j1lkomplex 3y
  
  Dont care, they declare themselves as cummie
  
  @ArchieWindragon 3y
  
  And I suppose you declare yourself as funny, but that ain't there either chief.
  
  @j1lkomplex 3y
  
  keep defending leftist
  
  @ArchieWindragon 3y
  
  Defending what?
  
  @j1lkomplex 3y
  
  left shit country
  
  @ArchieWindragon 3y
  
  Am I?
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  hey did you know your american road system is communist?
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  - funded by general taxes, so you pay for them whether you want to or not - free to use by everyone other than that - you're only allowed to drive on them if you've completed the gov mandated tests and as long as you comply with gov mandated rules sounds pretty commie to me. Not that there's anything wrong with that
  
  @affirvega 3y
  
  I cannot imagine the state of american roads if road companies would be private
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  I can. trains would be much more popular I imagine
  
  @affirvega 3y
  
  imagine a part of the world where you need a car to travel in your city
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  lmao
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  They do have privatly funded roads with pay to drive, genius
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  yeah but the part that aren't toll roads are communist
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  No, some roads commune funded, not communist. More than that roads are not funded only by general taxes only there are specific taxes for roads
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  guess where the word communist comes from yeah that's right commune/community
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  All repair are done by private parties with privatly owned means to production. Its checkmate
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  yeah and china is also driven by privatly owned parties. checkmate I guess
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  No, china is driven by CPP, man, better cope then lie
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  usa is driven by two parties that both got capital up their ass
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  And lobbyism is legite mechanism in US which give influence to capital over government. CPP just own everyone and can do whatever it want, lobbyism is a crime. Alibaba is recent example.
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  and I meant parties as in "third party" not political parties
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  Also as you changed themes I guess you agreed with roads difference.
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  it was half a joke anyway, labels like communist are so washed out nowadays they don't mean anything
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  Its not washed out, its very concrete in this example, when we deciding to label china as so, cause they have same opinion on the matter as we are (that they are building communism). Ofcourse they ended as authoritarian state, as any commies in practice.
  
  @callofvoid0 3y
  
  capitalism?
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  +
@callofvoid0 3y

same scenario in Iran they ban foreign messengers 'cause they don't wanna share data to the government goddamn internal ones log everysingle message
@qwnick 3y

Cope

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