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TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims (www.thepinknews.com)

submitted 5 hours ago by TRAHR@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 1 points 17 minutes ago

The Internet is bad.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

People should stop using these ad and tracking apps disguised as some useful app.

[–] m33@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

TT is not a useful application, it’s a mental sickness virus. It leads to hate and self harm.

[+] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com -8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

To be more honest:

Tiktok is actually very useful to find

very specific recipes
rare places to visit
specific tutorials
content in rare languages
insight from countries and cultures not found in regular media
some manifestation footage from the pov of the people
even some war/violent event footage before moderation and is better than Youtube, Reddit or a regular search engine for those.

However, it also has huge amounts of

misinformation
political propaganda
dumb people
pseudoscience
mass surveillance

and it's usage has negative effects on brain such as:

reduced attention span
distorted time perception
boredom intolerance

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

To be objectively honest, all the useful things you listed are and always have been available elsewhere in the internet.

[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)

Give me a search engine with as much easy to find specific content then ?

[–] Nugscree@lemmy.world 4 points 28 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 minutes ago

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.

[–] apples4anna@lemmy.world 46 points 4 hours ago

I'll never forgive TikTok for successfully pushing (and radicalizing) more Romanians to the far right in 1 month (Nov-Dec 2024) than all the other media sources combined have been able to in years. Nastiest platform by far.

[–] bklyn@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago

Yikes! Glad I never used TikTok