Eli5: Why does tiktok know when I’ve downloaded a new game on my PS5?

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Downloaded Hunt: Showdown, and tiktok immediately started showing me videos of the game. Didn’t speak the name out loud, didn’t text about it to anyone, didn’t google anything about it. Does Sony share info with tiktok, or could it have recognized the soundtrack of the game through my mic or something?

Edit: the phone is never on the wifi where the console is, so it’s not that.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

I once mentioned a company, outside, without my phone around, and within minutes a van for that very company drove by me, it was insane.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I had the same thing; I ordered some temporary flower tattoos on Etsy to put on my guitar, which I did together with my girlfriend, not even 5 minutes after she sees temporary tattoo-ads on her instagram account

Anonymous 0 Comments

you clicked the game and downloaded it. that is no different than searching. the data is collected and used for targeted ads.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Yeah I’m pretty sure tiktok makes you accept it’s terms, and in those terms it basically gives it acces to your whole network and any connected device and it’s files. So yeah. Get tiktok and then the second your phone connects to your network. Well, they have access to it all and you let them

Anonymous 0 Comments

Read tiktok terms of service, the answer was right there had you have read it first, It is the most invasive app maybe ever and every person that has it downloaded and agreed to the terms of service, has been giving all the information on their phone to the chinese government, yes it is a government funded and monitored app. The western world should outlaw it.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Because in their terms of service they get access to your device and every other device on your network.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Tiktok is extremely intrusive. Get it off your phone.

It reports on other devices on your home network, and has access to everything on your phone.

They’re about 20 way TikTok could have found out that information with the permissions you accepted.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I’ve always wondered this when I play a game for the first time in 7 years and get a tiktok about it 5 seconds later.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Because you didn’t read the T.O.S. where it told you that by agreeing to this, you allow that program to use your network to collect data from anything else connected.

You literally gave TikTok permission to collect/use your data for whatever they want. You agreed to that.