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 daily average of U.S. users deleting the TikTok app has increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC.
Some users took to social media to voice their skepticism about the new joint venture after being prompted to agree to an updated privacy policy on Thursday.
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PointlessProtestAgainstTheMachine@lemmy.org · 27 pts · 199d
Where do they get the publicly available account deletion stats?
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 23 pts · 199d
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 199d
Really? So there are databases of these numbers for all companies? Or is this unique to TikTok?
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 199d
krashmo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
But deleting your account is not the same as deleting the app. You can do either without the other
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 199d
krashmo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
The article is about users deleting the app. You said they could tell who did that by counting how many accounts were deleted. You can't because those are different things
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 199d
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 199d
Probably App Store metrics too. But I’m not sure how public those are, though I guarantee it’s tracked by Apple and Google to be shared with (at minimum) the app developer.
PointlessProtestAgainstTheMachine@lemmy.org · 3 pts · 199d
Ahh that makes sense.
tino_408@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 199d
This is a good question
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
Sensor Tower gives pretty good app analytics.
tino_408@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
I’ll just leave this here lol
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 198d
Heh. Thanks for that! Very good read! Opened my eyes a bit!
BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 199d
Yup my a lot of my non-nerd/techy friends are finally starting to do it with tiktok and on top of that they are starting to care a sliver more about their privacy.
The distrust of tiktok, meta, and google is growing. There is hope.
Ancalagon@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 199d
Lie machine needs to die .
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 199d
Let it die.
scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 199d
why have it if they do censorship, you can't even talk about the Epstein list anymore.
18107@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 199d
UpScrolled looks like a promising alternative.
Chozo@fedia.io · 20 pts · 199d
Another proprietary, singularly-owned platform vulnerable to hostile takeovers by wealthy propagandists?
I really hope Dansup is still putting in some work on Loops. This would really be a great time.
Virtvirt588@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
As a loops user, I find it a decent alternative to TicToc. It just doesn't have that much content on it as compared to TicToc.
Chozo@fedia.io · 1 pts · 199d
It's also lacking in a lot of features used heavily on TT, such as a library of popular music to use without risk of copyright infringement. TT and YT have the resources to license that material, but that kind of feature will likely never make it to a fedi platform. Dansup really needs to figure this out, as it's a bit of a "killer feature" that Loops is missing and has no solution for.
Virtvirt588@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 199d
We already have an alternative, and its on the fediverse. Its called loops and it doesn't include proprietary garbage.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 199d
If Trump stepped in to save Tik Tok then you know he's making money off of some sort of nefarious bullshit.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 199d
They're and were collecting info on gender, race and religion. Lots of info for Trump and his Maga buddies.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 199d
That was predictable.
China doesn’t care, it’s done its job and then some.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 198d
Why aren't people leaving X too? Also meta socials too?
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 199d
Good start
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 198d
People were happy to use the Pet Cemetery version of Tiktok since Elon took office last January… Better late than never I guess.
The tiktok algorithm is what made it valuable, as well as a search function that beats Google in finding and presenting relevant results. I hope upcoming competitors can match it