Published 2 years ago

TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don't Use the App

Summary by Ground News

Website developers use trackers from Google, Meta, TikTok and other companies to facilitate their own digital advertising, to analyze traffic, and to perform other services. Some companies aren't careful enough when they use such trackers. In some cases, a company's executives might not even realize how much data their own websites are sharing.

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TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don't Use the App

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Consumer Reports: A Consumer Reports investigation finds that TikTok, one of the country's most popular apps, is partnering with a growing number of other companies to hoover up data about people as they travel across the internet. That includes people who do...

2 years ago

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How TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don’t Use the App

Consumer Reports finds that websites are collaborating with TikTok, using the company's tracking technology to follow you when you aren't using TikTok.

2 years ago·Yonkers, United States

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