David Pierce

All of these things.

And actually, that data has been in TikTok's Terms of Service for some time.

Oh.

Again, I think it is reasonable to be alarmed by...

this data is going to be collected by a new group of people.

And I think it is fair to be worried about who that group of people is and what they might do with your data.

But the sheer collection of that data is not new in TikTok.

It's just that people finally read the terms of service.

Okay, A, we have shockingly similar timelines.

This is very exciting.

I love the horse hoof cleaning.

Yes.

In the past, I've said that this is one of my favorite tools.

And in today's video, I'll show you exactly why.

And all the comments are always like, doesn't that hurt?

Anyway.

You and I would never have searched for horse hoof cleaning videos, but the TikTok algorithm is clever enough to have shown them to us.

And that is the thing that actually no other platform has done a good job of replicating.

But now one of the stipulations of this deal is that there has to be some meaningful separation of that algorithm from Chinese control.

The new owners are going to quote, retrain, test and update the algorithm.