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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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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?
A manifestation (or “manif” for short) is the word for a (political) protest in some languages
How tf is this cope I don't even use this shit. Just give me the better sources for everything then ? Because I know people who use it and they find things hard to find otherwise. Just because it's a shit social media doesn't mean you should lie about what it can do.
Manifestation footage is footage of a manifestation. Quite often people I know who use tiktok talk to me about things going on in other countries that are not talked about in public media
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 ?
I'd trust Askjeeves to give me more reliable information than TT
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.
The paid one is Kagi and search results are pretty good.
Stupid comment. Search "rare places to visit" on google and get ready for 10 pages of AI slop articles and those that are not AI are always the same copy pasted from each other. On tiktok locals will make their own list of prefered places and show them and how to go there.
Use before:yyyy/mm/dd and/or after:yyyy/mm/dd in the search box to specify date ranges, and search for results before 2020 to remove all the AI slop.
Much easier than giving away your data to a company known for spreading misinformation, pushing AI content and genuinely worsening social interactions online and in real life.