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

laylawashere44, 10 months ago

I mean just use YT shorts, 99% of TikTok creators post on YouTube anyways because you get paid way more.

doggy, 10 months ago

I use ProxiTok to view tiktoks

EmhyrVarEmreis, 10 months ago

Use a private DNS and patch the app with revanced. Don’t use your primary email or phone and never give it permission to access your contacts.

That’s only if you really want to install it.

4am, 10 months ago

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.