Does anyone here actually use TikTok?

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Captante

Lifer
Oct 20, 2003
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Every once in awhile I'll watch a video but only in a locked down browser on my PC.... I wouldn't even consider viewing a link on my phone nevermind installing their spyware-app garbage.
 
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MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
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Hold on thar pardner! ...... YOU, Mr "Tinfoil hat" himself of all people hang out on Facebook? Next thing you know @Lost_in_the_HTTP will be using Google and posting Youtube links!

Don't even bother making comments about your privacy anymore if true.
Well if you're a right-wing conspiracy nut you need to get your news from somewhere. That's where most of them go.
 
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Amol S.

Platinum Member
Mar 14, 2015
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The closest I ever came to using/installing ticktok was this..... searching on Google "Location of TikTok International HQ".
 

WelshBloke

Lifer
Jan 12, 2005
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I can, and do avoid it. Maybe I'm just old, but what voice? I'm not familiar.

It's one of the places I never made an account, and don't feel the need to. I won't click links for vids there, I just don't care for most of the content.
They are embedded all over the Internet, I've never been to the site (is there even one?) or used the app.
It's an annoying emotionless computer generated voice.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Hold on thar pardner! ...... YOU, Mr "Tinfoil hat" himself of all people hang out on Facebook? Next thing you know @Lost_in_the_HTTP will be using Google and posting Youtube links!

Don't even bother making comments about your privacy anymore if true.

To be fair even if you don't use FB they track you anyway. Can't really win. Same with Google. As for the apps, won't touch that with a 20 foot pole. Browser only. Does not stop all the tracking but the apps are 10x worse. Really wish they would make browsers that do a better job at blocking trackers though, like, make it built in so don't need to mess with extensions.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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www.anyf.ca
You can't avoid tik tok, it's like a sodding virus all over the place. I absolutely don't have an account but that computer generated voice is all over the bloody place.

Ugh what the hell is with that trend anyway? Are people really too lazy to speak when they make a video?

And "oh no, oh no oh no no no no"

Cringe af ngl.
 

sactoking

Diamond Member
Sep 24, 2007
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"I'm super paranoid about browsers and links and security and privacy but I can't be bothered to turn my volume down to 'mute' for daily use. "
 
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Ugh what the hell is with that trend anyway? Are people really too lazy to speak when they make a video?
Mostly because they are not native English speakers. I knew an Indonesian girl who chatted with me using pretty understandable English but she couldn't utter more than a few words on voice chat. Don't know if she was using some sort of translation app.

It was always funny when she would ask me, "See me outside window" which really meant, show me what's outside your window
 

Mai72

Lifer
Sep 12, 2012
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What I just found out is there are 2-versions of TikTok. The Chinese version called Douyin which shows science experiments that kids can do at there home. They show museum exhibits, and educational videos. Plus, children are limited to 40 minutes per day on the platform. Now, compare that to American children and how they use TikTok. Hours and hours dedicated to watching mind numbing addictive short clips of the most stupid shit.

I believe the Chinese know what they are doing. Erode the values in the West. Especially in America. Make TikTok so addictive that it starts to influence American culture negatively. Then, watch America implode internally. While the Chinese are producing the next scientist, America will suffer from a popultion that is unable to focus and is self centered. Quite clever.

 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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What I just found out is there are 2-versions of TikTok. The Chinese version called Douyin which shows science experiments that kids can do at there home. They show museum exhibits, and educational videos. Plus, children are limited to 40 minutes per day on the platform. Now, compare that to American children and how they use TikTok. Hours and hours dedicated to watching mind numbing addictive short clips of the most stupid shit.

I believe the Chinese know what they are doing. Erode the values in the West. Especially in America. Make TikTok so addictive that it starts to influence American culture negatively. Then, watch America implode internally. While the Chinese are producing the next scientist, America will suffer from a popultion that is unable to focus and is self centered. Quite clever.


LoL no it is not a conspiracy to corrupt the western mind. It is simply CCP controlling everything inside PRC.
 
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