Holy crap that’s bad, and that’s why I want nothing to do with TikTok, ever.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/?sh=1ebd75e87da5
EXCLUSIVE: TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists

ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.

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@thelinuxEXP Why is this garbage piece of spyware so popular?
@deadlyremote I never understood it. All it does, Instagram already did before it, and I felt it already sucked back then 😅