Explain, please. I am a technologist also.
Note— Google, YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter. They’re ALL spyware, and that is my point. Tik Tok is not unique.
Explain why Tik Tok is worse, please. I’ll understand if you have the ability to explain it technically.
It's not a technical explanation, it is a socio-national explanation.
Yes, Google, Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook are indeed spyware. However, they are US-based, and US-centric. While some information can leak to the Chinese, data access (to them) is not the primary purpose of the platform.
Unlike TikTok.
If Google (who has shown a friendly hand to Chinese) started providing them any sort of access to the data, I'd campaign for their shutdown as well.