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[–] 76 points 10 months ago (8 children)

If you must use it, put it in your android work profile using island or similar, and run the apk through revanced first. Christ it's bad for you in every way though. Please don't use it.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Or better yet, use tiktok in your web browser. It has far fewer permissions and access to your system because of the browser sandbox and how the web is built.

    That's why companies constantly push users to download the app while using the web app, because they can track users more effectively (Android's sandbox is shit and allows apps to fingerprint users very easily).

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Tik tok makes it nearly impossible to use their website on mobile browser. When friends send me memes on there I usually have to switch to desktop mode and even then it's really difficult to navigate. Annoying enough that half the time I don't even bother to look if I get a tiktok link.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Is there any instance where using TikTok would be mandatory? I would hate that line of work, my gosh.

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  • [–] 45 points 10 months ago

    There's an app in your tracker

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (25 children)

    Duck Duck Go browser can set up a local VPN on your phone (doesn't connect anywhere) that blocks the telemetry and tracking attempts before they go out.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (21 children)

    I just got massively ratio'd by suggesting duck duck go here a week or two ago.

    Do you know why people hate it? It's my go to in all honesty.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    They push ai and only proxy bing result.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    Can you link me any source?

    I'm not saying you're wrong, just want to learn about it myself.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    To see ai just search in ddg.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

    In July 2016, DuckDuckGo officially announced the extension of its partnership with Yahoo! that brought new features to all users of the search engine, including date filtering of results and additional site links. It also partners with Bing, Yandex, and Wikipedia to produce results or make use of features offered.

    Bing biggest of three partner. Read also a while ago bing result very similar to ddg result.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Ohhh.

    Thanks for letting me know homie!

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Also the Browser is just Chrome rebrand. Get IronFox and set DDG as your search engine if you really want it.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Thanks for the info homie!

    Can I ask if you're a bigger fan of brave? I just read they use compute cycles to mine crypto.

    Is that true?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Brave is also a Chrome rebrand and has some sketchy history already.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Me too. I break out to google with a !g when necessary, which is maybe 1/3 of the time depending on the subject (maps, technical)

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    I keep chrome installed purely for Google apps. Edge for MS apps (mainly for work). Brave for porn with a VPN only so I can save cookies with my preferences, and lastly Firefox focus for browsing and default open as it clears everything on close automatically.

    I don't install social media apps unless they are 3rd party and don't have tracking and ads, lemmy has some great apps.

    Gotta keep them separated now.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    I knew it was brave to admit that on here lol

    I'll find an alternate browser for my occasional fap sessions to keep you happy :)

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Wait are we talking about the trackers or the fact that they renamed the pedo-infested app Musically to TikTok because of its infamy?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Good thing that Instagram has only moms whoring out their daughters, that’s a lot better 😀

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I don't use that either because fuck corporate social media, but IG isn't straight up marketed towards little kids at least.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Both have the exact same 13 year age limit in the EU

    Snapchat is the worst of these, the amount of straight up porn there is crazy along with the cyber bullying opportunities from disappearing messages

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Age limit is one thing, Musically was full of like 6-7 year olds. I remember my ex's niece was on it a bit less than a decade ago and was told off when she wanted to start making videos too. She was like 6 or something at the time.

    And yeah, Snapchat is horrible. I call it the cheater and pedo app.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    How does these kind off trackers scanners work - if the thing that they are given as input is an apk?
    Surely these APKs don't want to broadcast publicly all their tracking partners, and would just bury tracking requests deep inside the code.

    Are tracking scanners really sophisticated disassemblers?

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    App manager in particular uses a list of known tracking activities/services/etc, as far as I understand: https://muntashir.dev/AppManager/en/#subsec:faq:how-trackers-libs-updated

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    If the service decides to encrypt the tracking data and send it to their own servers with their normal content before sending it on to the tracking servers, there's no way to isolate it other than prevent it being collected in the first place. I believe Meta already does this to hide the vast amount of data they steal from your device with all their apps. It's how they can hide the data they scrape via hacks that bypass regular sandboxing and permission restrictions.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    That was the big controversy about TikTok right from the beginning.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)