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I am considering installing TikTok. Any suggestion on how to make it less privacy-invasive?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6214098

I want to follow some people on tiktok, for the content they put out. I am, however, a somewhat privacy-minded person. Any suggestion on how to make TikTok less privacy-invasive? Some DNS app?

I am on Android, not rooted.

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breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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  1. Tiktok
  2. Privacy

You can choose only one

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jet@hackertalks.com
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Don’t install an app you don’t trust. There’s no private way to do it.

TikTok lets you view people via the web browser, just bookmark them, and check up on them periodically. I don’t know if you could get an RSS feed for them, might be possible.

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pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev
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I saw this project https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok
Haven’t been able to selfhost it (not sure what I’m doing wrong yet), but the public instances are working fine.

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jet@hackertalks.com
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Also it looks like you can get an RSS feed

https://rss.app/blog/how-to-create-tiktok-rss-feeds-VEdZNt

So to the original posters question, there’s no need to install the app, just an RSS reader.

I just checked, TikTok has a progressive web app! You can just install the progressive web app, and keep all of the privacy provisions of your browser. So I think that’s the good middle ground here

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4am@lemm.ee
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Blocked at the firewall at my place.

Just don’t. If you want TikTok content then look for YouTube compilations or reposts (do shorts work on Piped?)

TikTok is one of the most privacy-invasive apps ever created, and that’s before even considering the data they get from watching what videos you watch/like. They harvest literally everything they can from your phone.

I guess if you run it in a VM on an Android emulator with a VPN and strict vlan/firewall rules using an email address you created specifically for it, but even then it doesn’t seem worth it.

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doggy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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I use ProxiTok to view tiktoks

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ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
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Yeah good luck with that. Personally, no content is worth that trade off to me.

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