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People should stop using these ad and tracking apps disguised as some useful app.
TT is not a useful application, it’s a mental sickness virus. It leads to hate and self harm.
So is grindr. Most dehumanizing app ever, so manipulative and full of ads.
It does give you sex in return for data, which compared to most apps, is a better return ratio.
It’s not sex in return for data, more like “you get sex, you lose confidence and any sense of self-worth, we will also show you ads every 3 seconds.”
I would recommend that you should reflect on how you use the app. The gay community has given me far to much confidence.
Gay communities are not all the same around the world. It kind of is part of the problem, grindr applies an insensitive one size fits all model. US gay culture prevalent in grindr pushes promiscuity, distorted body images and sex centered stereotypes. It used to be that the app was simply a proximity chat with basic profiles. This was a safe haven for gay men in homophobic cultures that needed a way to identify, contact and interact with other gay men without fear of violence or discrimination. Yes, it was about sex, but it was about sex as a reactionary channel for frustrated desires for human contact and emotional connection.
Today it is so enshittified and has added so many anti features that it has shifted to be the opposite. It has turned into a harassment machine, that frustrates and enrages users in an attempt to make them pay money for premium features, that used to be free, or get rid of the new ones that nobody uses. Which signals users to be and act even worse to each other in order to circumvent the exploiting anti features.
Then it also pushes things like penis size obsession, high risk multipartner encounters and unprotected sex, with a high dose of body shaming on the side. All that while showing an ad every 3 seconds (I’m not exaggerating). Without mentioning that it has always been a privacy nightmare, a vector for minor’s abuse, sex work and drug trafficking. With the app owners never doing anything of value to actually protect the users. Grindr has gotten kids and adults raped and murdered before. But it promotes PRep (in countries where the drug is banned because homophobia), so, yay!
Skill issue
I wish I could packet sniff or monitor what apps are doing what on my phone. If I install a calculator, I only want it to math some numbers, not harvest data from me.
Apple is supposed to mention this in the App Store but even then it’s just a tag on an app and there’s no more details.
I know you’re on iOS but for anyone else who’s on Android, TrackerControl is a great easy to use app for this purpose
But for iOS OP, maybe AdGuard would help?
Anytime you download an app, by default ir has permission to use your Cellular Data and WiFi and indexed by Siri. Best you can do is void all those and not give it any unnecessary permissions
If you have enough data (like 50+GB), try to keep WiFi off and use only cellular and disable the apps celllular oermission in the Cellular section in Settings
Doesn’t DuckDuckGo offer a subscription service that monitors/blocks those requests?
You can. PersonalDNSfilter on f droid. Its great. And scary.
You cant install anything on android without it asking you for permissions.
Stop using apple and you will have slightly more control.
Here are the permissions used by a calculator app Android tells me has “No permissions granted”.
You can’t deny any of those.
Don’t use Tiktok. But also, don’t use any social media run by large corporations. You deserve better than that.
Also I really wish someone would start a non-profit driven dating/hookup app. Grindr is a perfect example of full enshittification, keeping users on the platform as long as possible, needing paid accounts to do anything at all. The world is in a loneliness crisis, we could be using this tech to actually fix it, instead the tech exacerbates the problem to get ad views.
Alas, laws are coming into place where large, centralized, social media platforms will be the only ones able to operate within the law.
Yikes! Glad I never used TikTok
a little reminder that trump’s bringing in a lot of reactionary doom and gloom, and the solution is revolutionary optimism. seriously!
TikTok literally checking up your ass at this point
at this point, we need to organize. seriously!
Soon this data will be collected by far-right oligarchs like Larry Ellison through Oracle. We really need a huge push to urge everyone to stop using TikTok.
Soon this data will be collected by far-right oligarchs like Larry Ellison through Oracle.
And maybe the Chinese and Russian governments, too, paying top dollar through a bunch of cutouts.
what would lenin do?
what would lenin do?
Completely go against the basic ideas of Marxism, seize power, and purge the actual communists who disagree with you?
are you a council communist?
I don’t consider myself a communist at all, just a student of politics
have you been reading up on socialist/communist theory?
Even worse.
In this day and age with greedy billionaires everywhere doing a bunch of heinous bullshit just assume you are being watched all of the time.
