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.

  • jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    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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    1 year 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.

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    1 year ago

    I’d recommend the Revanced version (is a fork that removed ads and blatant trackers). But it doesn’t stop Tik Tok from tracking what you see. For example, Facebook, technically it doesn’t have third party tracker, because the app itself is a tracker.

  • Emhyr var Emreis@lemm.ee
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    1 year 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.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t know if this is dumb or not but I have it installed on an old phone with nothing else installed on it and just use it on the home WiFi sometimes.

    Another plus being that I have to intentionally get the phone and intentionally turn it on to use the awful-but-intriguing-app.

  • DengueDucky@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Shelter + Shizuku + App Ops

    Shelter will put it in a work profile.

    Shizuku and App Ops work together to give you more control over app permissions. You can restrict a lot this way.

    Granted, that won’t stop the normal data collection via your IP address that occurs as a result of browsing their content.