And as you can imagine, the follow up questions by the author about the incident were not answered.
This is not the same as Google or Facebook, or any other giants spying on people.
If it was really merely some TikTok's employees' own decision, then just like it's working atmosphere, it's culture is toxic.
In short, profiling, and assuming they know all about you to promote, deny, or manipulate various product price points.
Products from the physical, to services, to bank and mortgage costs.
There was a highly publicised case at Facebook some years ago with the same behaviour.
If you think that only TikTok does that, think again.
This is not what happened here - here, the issue was explained with an analagous, well-known issue. That issue was not being raised, it was used in an illustrative way.
you keep using that word... whataboutism... I do not think it means what you think it means.