Oh yes because you HAVE to give them your real.name@gmail address. Very cool and privacy focused.

Suspect knew what info he had put where. Poor OPSEC.

I guess my sarcasm needed the /s; was just mocking people who would try to retort with some half brained comment like that.

Of course passkeys are better and more secure, I’m 100% on board with them.

“Websites ask me for it every time I visit them bro 🤪”

Suits can also set legal precedents that the company (and others!) may need to follow. Yeah the settlement is typically ass but grounds to sue again for continued bad behavior can’t get ruled on by an actual court of law during arbitration.

In other words, this is actual class warfare against customers.

I think you are thinking of Instagram. Facebook doesn’t own Snapchat.

Oh it’s Onavo. Onavo was the “Facebook VPN” software they shuttered in 2019. So it had access to network traffic on-device before it was sent out.

Seems like it was more than a VPN, and put its claws deep into the network stack if it was reading packet buffers before they were encrypted. Not good; I’m sure that users were not made aware of this but in light of this possibility, your point stands.

Blocked at the firewall at my place.

Just don’t. If you want TikTok content then look for YouTube compilations or reposts (do shorts work on Piped?)

TikTok is one of the most privacy-invasive apps ever created, and that’s before even considering the data they get from watching what videos you watch/like. They harvest literally everything they can from your phone.

I guess if you run it in a VM on an Android emulator with a VPN and strict vlan/firewall rules using an email address you created specifically for it, but even then it doesn’t seem worth it.

This article is an ad for the VPN service setup done by the company who wrote it. They mention it several times in the article.

That’s why they are pushing VPN and self-hosted entrance guards; they want to sell you one.