TikTok may be privy to every tap on the screen you make and every link you click on, a security and privacy researcher warns. 7NEWS
Krause says while we cannot know what TikTok uses the subscription for, “from a technical perspective, this is the equivalent of installing a keylogger on third party websites”.
“TikTok iOS uses a JavaScript function to get details about the element the user clicked on, like an image,” he said., TikTok said it does use the code which Krause found - but only for “debugging, troubleshooting and performance monitoring of that experience”.
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