BraveKenny

A while back, when I was curious about TikTok, I downloaded it and was instantly swiping through a video feed that was already getting customized for me.

Has this been definitely proven though? I tried finding evidence of whether TikTok tailors content for unregistered users (based on their location/device for example), but so far, I could not find a page that would even clearly ask that question. Every article about the algorithm I have read only considers registered users...

It does make a difference, though, in that at least you would know what was done with your device. (especially if you are the one actually handling the device)

I can see plenty of those inspection scenarios where I would not want to crush my device into pieces afterwards. And plenty of others where I would. There lies the difference.

Yeah, also it doesn't help that the boxes look like checkboxes!

Sounds like some evil plan StackOverflow could use: inserting those characters randomly in the answers' codes to deter copy-pasting.

Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then.

As opposed to all those famously Switzerland-based companies such as AWS, Heroku, DigitalOcean...

It gets debugged in a flash though.