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TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app. Here's how to stop it (www.bbc.com)
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TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you – but some easy steps can keep you safe.

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[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Meta does the same thing, probably a lot of shitty actors do.

[–] Kjell@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, we should assume that all big tech companies are taking us everywhere and all the time.

From the article:

According to DuckDuckGo, a privacy company, TikTok has trackers on 5% of the world's top websites. That number has grown steadily, though it's nothing compared to Google with trackers on almost 72% of top websites and Meta at about 21%.