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

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[–] apples4anna@lemmy.world 52 points 5 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.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 20 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] m33@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

So is grindr. Most dehumanizing app ever, so manipulative and full of ads.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 minutes ago

It does give you sex in return for data, which compared to most apps, is a better return ratio.

[+] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com -16 points 2 hours ago (2 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 17 points 2 hours 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 -8 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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

[–] Nugscree@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (2 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 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 25 minutes ago

The paid one is Kagi and search results are pretty good.

[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 1 points 32 minutes ago

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.

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 5 points 36 minutes ago

I'd trust Askjeeves to give me more reliable information than TT

[–] MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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?

[–] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 1 points 45 minutes ago

A manifestation (or “manif” for short) is the word for a (political) protest in some languages

[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 51 minutes ago

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

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 4 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)

I wish I could packet sniff or monitor what apps are doing what on my phone. If I install a calculator, I only want it to math some numbers, not harvest data from me.

Apple is supposed to mention this in the App Store but even then it’s just a tag on an app and there’s no more details.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 minutes ago

Doesn't DuckDuckGo offer a subscription service that monitors/blocks those requests?

[–] bklyn@piefed.social 3 points 4 hours ago

Yikes! Glad I never used TikTok

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The Internet is bad.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

Careful now, these people LOVE their digital heroin