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Blaze@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 months ago

Teen Mental Health App Sent Kids' Data Straight to TikTok

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Teen Mental Health App Sent Kids' Data Straight to TikTok

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Blaze@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 months ago
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The company removed tracking tools from its teen-focused websites in New York, Seattle, and Baltimore after parents complained.
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    We are calling websites “apps” now?

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      everything is an app now.

      thanks, steve jerbs.

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      They kinda are

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        Only in the sense that most apps are just a slightly modified web site where they’re able to track way more of how you’re interacting with it and also scrape all the data on your phone…

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          No, I was talking in the sense that most websites are just JavaScript apps, rather than served HTML as Tim intended.

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            👍 thanks for the clarification

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            Sir Tim to us plebes.

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              Sir Tim to us plebes

              You mean the idiot who advocated for DRM on the web? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions

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                Yes, that is Sir Tim.

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                  Not without a honorable behavior.

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                    “Sir” only means he was knighted. That’s all.

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      Why not? Many websites are more complex than many desktop or mobile applications, so if a website does more than just render a blog or something, I think “app” qualified. Tiktok is certainly a web application, or webapp.

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