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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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[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Better use just web version if honestly.Because application is really awful.

https://gist.github.com/Theoistic/d419667b1052c4c21e789341e085b5a0

Just look at permission manifest of android.

It has

  • location tracking
  • phone calls reading
  • Making screenshot of your scren
  • get wifi networks around you
  • facial recognition
  • Microphone analyze of your speech
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Wow thanks for sharing that gist! I never even considered installing and don't use it, it's just wild to see how insane that list is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You don't have to give it permission to do any of those things

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

So far not every u can control,how u would prevent screenshoting of screen? U will need using something like appmanager which require adb or root (better ofc)