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In my experience, you have to search for things you like for a few months to give TikTok the data it needs for recommendations.

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It is scary how easy and willingly we just give up our privacy and data away.

Truly the future is Brave New World, not 1984

How else would a recommendation algorithm work? I don’t see why it’s concerning that a company knows that I like to follow musicians, etc.

What’s the alternative? Never finding new things because I refuse to divulge what niches or hobbies I like?

Yeah. It should be obvious that recommendations to work somehow you need to track what you like. Or other alternative is to just recommend the most popular mainstream thing at the moment... Which then get also attacked for various reasons.

Get off it. Asking an app to serve you content isn't giving up privacy. Get some fucking perspective.

Yes, it is kind of weird to say "social media exists = 1984" but I think they were meaning that it's worrying how many people use it without realizing they're basically doing the NSA's job for them.

That’s not people below 40 say. They describe it as an instant drug.

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