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TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims
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this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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People should stop using these ad and tracking apps disguised as some useful app.
TT is not a useful application, it’s a mental sickness virus. It leads to hate and self harm.
To be more honest:
Tiktok is actually very useful to find
However, it also has huge amounts of
and it's usage has negative effects on brain such as:
This is cope. TT feeds you the information you don't need or search for it. If you search you will find better sources for everything. It's just a big advertisement platform.
Also tf is manifestation footage?
To be objectively honest, all the useful things you listed are and always have been available elsewhere in the internet.
Give me a search engine with as much easy to find specific content then ?
Google? Query, then click on the video's tab. Don't want to use Google? You can also use Duck duck go, startpage.com, or anything similar using the same steps.
Oh, the horror. DDG is only better because it's not the big G, otherwise it returns the same nonesense search optimized slop. If your data is not important, russian site yandex gives different hits (def better for the high seas). There's also a paid websearch (forgot the name) that seems legit.
Internet is dead.