I honestly can't wrap my ahead around what is going on here. They are either so completely out of touch with all things privacy that they genuinely have no idea TikTok is spyware, or they are aware of this fact but the just don't care at all. Which is worse?
How does anyone involved in cryptocurrency to the level of developing a "privacy wallet" not know the implications of using this particular app? I thought everybody knew that TikTok was CCP spyware. The former president of the US attempted to block them from operating their service in the US, and settled on the ByteDance (the parent company,) creating a service specifically for the US and storing all the data on US servers (it's worth noting that the current administration has reversed those restrictions.)
I am of the opinion that blocking UTXOs based on arbitrary taint-proclamations was a really stupid move, but I never thought of the Wasabi development team as stupid. I mean, they're software developers, how can they be this stupid? Right? It makes me think they are in the
"don't care" phase and are just trying to shill their wallet in any way they can, without any real concern for their clients' privacy.
Wasabigate keeps getting muddier and murkier.