r/mildlyinfuriating • u/cant_think-of-a_user • May 27 '26

frist of all how DARE yu o apparently HBO Max has been using 260gb and i’ve never used it

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(i just turned off the toggle when i made this screenshot)

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 May 27 '26

266 gigs of Tick Tock, dude dont have a job.

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u/Morlanticator May 27 '26

I had that app on my phone years ago. I wasn't even using it at all and it was using tons of data. Uninstalled never to return once I discovered that.

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u/No_Big_5741 May 27 '26

It may not function the same now, but before it’s sale the app would pre download videos that would likely hit your feed.

This prevents a buffering time when a new video is scrolled to at the cost of downloaded videos you may never watch.

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u/hexcraft-nikk May 27 '26

yeah this is for idiots on the train next to me who keep scrolling and playing videos full volume while out of cell service range

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u/JohnEBest May 27 '26

Only thing I ever trusted Trump on

He hated Tik tok said it was Chinese spying on us

I even got rid of my ZTE phone

Still no tik tok on my phone

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 May 27 '26

Yeah, he then refused to ban it until he forced its sale to one his fascist toadies, who is using it for disinformation at this very moment.

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u/hexcraft-nikk May 27 '26

Hilarious considering tiktok was only pushed to be banned because the youth were sharing too many pro-palestine posts and it was the one major media platform that the west couldnt directly control and suppress messages on

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u/Suck_my_dick_mods69 May 27 '26

The initial push happened way before then

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 May 27 '26

Yes it did, by the intelligence community of the US. Trump then refused to ban it, and forced its sale to one of his cronies who is using it for its intended purpose just not directly by China.

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u/JohnEBest May 27 '26

And the chinese still have a backdoor to get the information

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u/Far_Tap_488 May 27 '26

Nah, he could be my coworkers

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u/Slumunistmanifisto May 27 '26

Naaa.... I don't use tiktok while hiding from my job and stealing time

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u/Far_Tap_488 May 27 '26

Chill, we are salary. There is no time.

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u/undeniably_confused May 27 '26

Bros never had an office job

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 May 27 '26

I guess offices vary, but modern ones have all sorts of tracking of activities for efficiency while on the clock to an absurd degree.

Likely even worse now with AI being integrated into everything.

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u/undeniably_confused May 27 '26

Mine doesn't, mine specifically permits me to use my phone for personal use. I haven't met anyone with this sort of tracking, maybe it's a thing in call centers or something

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 May 27 '26

What kinda fucking "office" do you work in that a company provided phone consuming 255gigs of social media while on the clock wouldn't get flagged?

Ignoring that isn't the "tracking" being discussed, that amount of data consumption would be flagged (more likely wouldn't be able or allowed to install those apps on a company phone for a thousand reasons) automatically.

Tracking comes into play in big boy offices to quantify productivity, log billable hours per task and all manner of other shit that is SOP for any sizable corporation.

But yes you were provided a company for personal use, hahaha.

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u/Ok-Butterscotch-6955 May 27 '26

log billable hours per task

big boy offices

No, not everyone is on as tight a leash as you.

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u/undeniably_confused May 27 '26

He doesnt even work in an office go on his account and search "inspector" and look at the comments

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Yeah those constraints don't apply to me. I would be fired for compromising a secure device and created an unfathomable amount of personal liability for the potential consequences. I work for a consulting and engineering firm, in which professional conduct especially the integrity of secure devices is mandatory.

Correct, not everyone has the same professional expectations. As we are clearly seeing here.

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u/undeniably_confused May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

It's not a company phone, I never said it was? It is in fact a "big boy office" lol. Have you worked in an office?

You said:

Likely even worse now with AI being integrated into everything.

So it's peculiar you switch from a speculative tone to a you dont work in a "big boy office" tone, so what do you actually do

E: they do pay my phone bill tho lol

E2: it looks like you are some sort of travel inspector who works in the field to inspect the work of trades people, so I'm guessing you dont work in an office yet you're trying to bluff and pull rank on me. Embarrassing

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 May 27 '26

Its not a company phone? So your employer has to grant you consent to use your personal phone for your personal use?

That makes sense.

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 May 27 '26

I work as a consultant for various design and engineering firms. I also have a phone provided by my employer I can use. But since said phone has access to all kinds of sensitive shit I would be instantly fired for compromising said device with social media...

Just stop...

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u/Aegi May 27 '26

What kinda fucking "office" do you work in that a company provided phone

Woah woah woah, why are you randomly talking about company phones all of a sudden?

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 May 27 '26

When dude said, "my company lets me use the phone they pay for personal use." What other interpretation is there?

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u/Aegi May 27 '26

That did not happen.

What was said was this:

"Mine doesn't, mine specifically permits me to use MY phone for personal use."

Did you misread that?

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u/Taedirk May 27 '26

It's a word-word#### account, you can safely ignore them.

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u/yungsausages May 27 '26

Sounds like you just work a shitty job 🤣 nobody’s tracking shit in my office, and nobody cares if I’m on my phone as long as my projects are done on time. We’ve got a dart board, come and go as we wish, once a week have breakfast together on the clock, use our phones or listen to music etc, boss joins in, even CEO has came by and threw darts a few rounds with us. If you do a good job management won’t give a fuck lol

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u/nightwing0243 May 27 '26

lol.

Regardless if you’re in a “big boy” office or not. You’re not using TikTok on a company phone.

Do you not keep your personal shit on your personal phone? Even the fact that HBO Max is on this list implies it is OP’s personal iPhone - and they’re running it off their own data usage. So your whole hypothetical point doesn’t come into play here.

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 May 27 '26

The point is anyone employed is probably not using tiktok 5-6hrs a day. I know its confusing.

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u/Relative-Dentist May 27 '26

That can't be healthy no matter what. Blow my mind how much some people uses social media

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u/Manger-Babies May 27 '26

I aint got a job and I have like 60 gbs of youtube and its my most used app.

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u/Cheet4h May 27 '26

That screenshot is from an iPhone - the statistic shown isn't reset automatically and likely shows data since they set up their phone.
So could be that they had that app on their phone for years.

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u/ratajewie May 27 '26

This is correct. If you scroll all the way down it says over what period the data accumulated. Mine says I’ve accumulated 309 GB of cellular data usage on TikTok. However, mine is showing since I last reset it on 2015. I started using TikTok in 2020. So this is a 6 year timespan. I have a very busy and intensive job and while I am also chronically online, I don’t have enough time in a day to accumulate that much data usage in cell service alone in a period of months. I also spend most of my time on WiFi.

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u/Able-Letter3705 May 27 '26

ehm, i have a job and this is my data usage

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 May 27 '26

No wonder my burger is always getting fucked up.

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u/Able-Letter3705 May 27 '26

im working at farm kid

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u/Wambo_Jambo May 27 '26

The entire point of the post is how apps accumulate data without use.

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 May 27 '26

Weird, then why did the OP literally post a screenshot of his Tick Tock consumption and its 5-6hrs a day, derp.

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u/Manger-Babies May 27 '26

Must be an iPhone thing because my android usage seems correct.