Month: 15 Adar 5783 (March 2023)

one of the reasons the government wants to pretend that banning tiktok fixes all of our privacy issues is because if they start regulating the unaccountable data broker market or pass a real privacy law they'll no longer be able to easily buy citizen data without a warrant https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-purchase-location-data-wray-senate/

Tik Tok is next to tell you what kind of links you can put on your online profile. "TikTok has begun blocking links to app stores in creators’ bios, [....] The block [...] also extends to third-party link-in-bio solutions like Linktree." And this is why you need to own your web presence, even if it's a basic, single page hosted on https://neocities.org or https://glitch.com. https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/08/tiktok-begins-blocking-links-to-app-store-pages-from-creators-bios/ via @Sarahp@mastodon.social #IndieWeb #OpenWeb #news #TikTok