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TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims (www.thepinknews.com)
submitted 2 months ago by TRAHR@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] m33@lemmy.zip 48 points 2 months ago (25 children)

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

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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

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[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (6 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.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 19 points 2 months ago

I know you're on iOS but for anyone else who's on Android, TrackerControl is a great easy to use app for this purpose

But for iOS OP, maybe AdGuard would help?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Anytime you download an app, by default ir has permission to use your Cellular Data and WiFi and indexed by Siri. Best you can do is void all those and not give it any unnecessary permissions

If you have enough data (like 50+GB), try to keep WiFi off and use only cellular and disable the apps celllular oermission in the Cellular section in Settings

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

You can. PersonalDNSfilter on f droid. Its great. And scary.

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[–] xep@discuss.online 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Don't use Tiktok. But also, don't use any social media run by large corporations. You deserve better than that.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Also I really wish someone would start a non-profit driven dating/hookup app. Grindr is a perfect example of full enshittification, keeping users on the platform as long as possible, needing paid accounts to do anything at all. The world is in a loneliness crisis, we could be using this tech to actually fix it, instead the tech exacerbates the problem to get ad views.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Alas, laws are coming into place where large, centralized, social media platforms will be the only ones able to operate within the law.

[–] bklyn@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago

Yikes! Glad I never used TikTok

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

a little reminder that trump's bringing in a lot of reactionary doom and gloom, and the solution is revolutionary optimism. seriously!

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

TikTok literally checking up your ass at this point

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Internet is bad.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Careful now, these people LOVE their digital heroin

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

at this point, we need to organize. seriously!

[–] BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Soon this data will be collected by far-right oligarchs like Larry Ellison through Oracle. We really need a huge push to urge everyone to stop using TikTok.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

what would lenin do?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

what would lenin do?

Completely go against the basic ideas of Marxism, seize power, and purge the actual communists who disagree with you?

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

are you a council communist?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't consider myself a communist at all, just a student of politics

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

have you been reading up on socialist/communist theory?

[–] LefterShark@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

Even worse.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Soon this data will be collected by far-right oligarchs like Larry Ellison through Oracle.

And maybe the Chinese and Russian governments, too, paying top dollar through a bunch of cutouts.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

In this day and age with greedy billionaires everywhere doing a bunch of heinous bullshit just assume you are being watched all of the time.

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