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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.
So is grindr. Most dehumanizing app ever, so manipulative and full of ads.
It does give you sex in return for data, which compared to most apps, is a better return ratio.
It's not sex in return for data, more like “you get sex, you lose confidence and any sense of self-worth, we will also show you ads every 3 seconds.”
9 times out of 10 that tap or message you just got came from a fucking bot. Grindr is such a shithole app.
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Skill issue
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:
To be objectively honest, all the useful things you listed are and always have been available elsewhere in the internet.
People have turned into idiots the past few years who cant even use the internet/computers properly. Because corporations brainwashed them.
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.
Yes very useful to search for places half a decade ago
Places usually don't vanish into nonexistence after five years.
Local cafes and restaurants may be closed. Some places may be under construction or restoration. Some hidden places may have become ultra touristic. Some neighborhoods may have become dangerous
You know where you cand find out if a cafe or restaurant will be closed? A search provider with the words [cafe name] opening times. Shit mate, google maps has the opening times.
If you're seeing recommendations for a place on tiktok, it's already ultra touristic, and is in no way shape or form hidden.
And surely you're going to find accurate and up to date unbiased information about these 'dangerous neighbourhoods' from tiktok, you're surely not just going to be faced with a wall of thinly veiled racism on there at all.
You'd really let someone else do all your thinking for you, and then posting a video touting their opinions as facts.
That's not the question. The suggested better approach is using outdated google results which is bad. You will manually filter all things ? And then go find a new list... Shit mate, google maps also has wrong and outdated information, already had it a few times listing closed shops as open.
Basically you're saying using algorithm and partially accurate lists instead of one made by a human. The rest is just you pushing your bias to make assumptions since you have no idea.
If using guides is "letting someone do the thinking for me" then I should go in the country and visit all shops by myself and then do my own guide to see what I should visit?
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
Ahh I thought it was in English too
No, I interpreted it as a form of religious magical practice that's somewhat popular on social media
Lmao there are self-called witches on tiktok 😭
Yeah there are a lot of religions on most social media sites. Manifesting is interestingly increasingly popular with Christians.
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
I don't think its a good source for any of these, because its short videos. You don't actually look for information there, because searching for specific these specific videos is hard. If you want specific information you gotta read, because text-based info is searchable.
Recipes are on recipe websites, interesting places in local forums, same with rare languages. Tutorials are all over the internet.
Protest are definetly not on the Chinese run social media, unless China wants it to be amplified.
It's maybe good for memes.
Videos come with hashtags which are text and thus searchable, then the algorithm recommends similar videos or other with the same keywords that are related.
A lot of information is better in a visual format than text: tourism guides and art for example.
Sure but you must know the forums and they have way less user base than TT where you have all content with a single search engine.
Yes there are a lot, note that they have a different feed for chinese citizens where there are probably way less.