Internet related News · 2022-02-09

Study shows YouTube & TikTok collect your data more than any other social media apps – News

It’s possible that two of your social media apps are collecting a lot of personal data about you, & one of them might not be what you want.

A recent study by URL Genius, a mobile marketing company, found that YouTube & TikTok track users’ personal data more than any other social media app.


TikTok shares your data more than any other social media app — and it’s unclear where it goes, study says – CNBC.com

To conduct the study, URL Genius used the Record App Activity feature from Apple’s iOS to count how many different domains track a user’s activity across 10 different social media apps — YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, Telegram, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Messenger and Whatsapp — over the course of one visit, before you even log into your account.

Link: TikTok shares your data more than any other social media app — and it’s unclear where it goes, study says
via www.cnbc.com

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