TikTok users are deleting the app, with removals up 150% following U.S. joint venture
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TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.

TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.

The short-form video platform’s daily average app uninstalls in the U.S. have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC.

  • skisnow@lemmy.ca
    English
    252·
    2 months ago

    China was spying on me in case I had any useful state secrets. America is spying on me because they are actively exploiting every data point in my life for profit and control.

    • makingrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      Worse than spying - manipulating politics and social cohesion. Many teens have died (example: pass out challenge), right-wing governments have almost been elected out of nowhere (Romania) and mentally ill people have been preyed upon heavily.

      • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Worse than spying - manipulating politics and social cohesion.

        Which could also be manipulation. Young TikTok watchers are only a fraction of the voters. The change in outcome could mainly be driven by excluding the right-wing candidate from the second election.

      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
        31·
        2 months ago

        Google showed that they’d comply with the Chinese government to operate in the country years ago.

        Google refused, as a consequence, are blocked by the Great Firewall. Microslop bent the knee and continues to operate until China gets an alternative going.