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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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[-] BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Let it die.

[-] Ancalagon@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Lie machine needs to die .

Where do they get the publicly available account deletion stats?

[-] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago

I think Tik Tok is required to record those numbers and share them with shareholders as such data would tell one they are worth investing or not.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Really? So there are databases of these numbers for all companies? Or is this unique to TikTok?

[-] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago

All the companies I would imagine. And it’s not information hard to record. After all it’s just Tiktok looking at how many accounts they have and then saying how many deleted

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

But deleting your account is not the same as deleting the app. You can do either without the other

[-] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

Sure? I don’t know what I wrote implied I was saying app as I didn’t use that word whatsoever

Ahh that makes sense.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago

UpScrolled looks like a promising alternative.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 14 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

why have it if they do censorship, you can't even talk about the Epstein list anymore.

[-] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago

That was predictable.

China doesn’t care, it’s done its job and then some.

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