this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2026
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Things like this happen in client side extension and it can take so long to get to what was happening but some people get defensive when people claim tiktok, facebook, google, microsoft are all listening in on your data.
There are so many ways to obfuscate data we'll probably never know the extent of the data being collected.