ITT: User complains that he doesn’t understand WebApps and bitches at TikTok 🤣.
What’s a webapp?
A web site that installs some JS in your browser (called a “service worker”) that does shit
The fuck how does that happen? Is it malware?
Very likely that you use web apps regularly. It’s very commonplace.
as with all web stuff, it’s sandboxed so it shouldn’t be able to do anything too malicious, but it can be annoying if you accidentally gave it permission to do stuff.
as with all web stuff, it’s sandboxed so it shouldn’t be able to do anything too malicious, but it can be annoying if you accidentally gave it permission to do stuff.
Web apps and removed? This isn’t the first comment I’ve seen with “removed” randomly in the middle of a sentence. Are mods censoring comments or something?
Your instances is sensoring cuss words.
I’m on lemmy.ml
Are you using an app that could block it?
I’m on the Connect app
It’s definitely an instance thing, not an app thing. If you look at the comments through their instance using the rainbow icon, you can see what they see.
Looks like an instance specific thing. Not getting that on lemme.ee
Tik Tok is so awful it’s disheartening that people don’t get it.
I hate how awful yet ubiquitous it is. Depending on your demographic, not having it can mean you miss out on a lot of pop culture and sort of get left behind.
I’m probably in the like 2nd most targeted demographic, so all my friends are on TT and all the trending things related to our hobbies are on there. I constantly feel left out because I’m missing 99% of the content. And it’s hard because I want to have dumb conversations about pop culture and hobbies with my friends, but I refuse to download it. It makes me so sad. It’s very isolating
I dont have TT. I also don’t have Snapchat. Therefore, I also don’t have friends, or have any clue what is going on in the lives of those around me or the pop culture of my generation.
It is a lonely existence, but I refuse to get either of those apps. People have my number. If they actually cared, they could return my texts.
Assuming you have a phone which
skiesallows you to deny permissions on an app-level, what is preventing you from browsing it? Is it political? Job related (ie your only device is a work device)?While you can easily let it feed you crap, you have a reasonable ability to tune what the algo feeds you. Unless you really do have a self control issue, which is legit/fair reading to avoid the temptation.
It’s usually the invasive data collection that gets people.
Yup, this is the reason.
Why would you give them access? Maybe android sucks, but iOS sandboxes apps. And on desktop you just pull up a firefox private session. It’s not that hard.
I didn’t install it on my new phone and itmakes me feel like something is missing. That algorithm is so damn addictive. Also miss the recipes on there.
It’s really not. It’s a dumb flagpole that privacy advocates are burning good will on.
Holy mixed metaphors Batman.
Get bent
Fuck off
What do you mean by notification? Is it an email or an android notification?
I shouldve screenshot it too but it looked like it came from the app and I don’t have any emails from them. It looked real enough that I went to my notification settings to turn it off but I forgot I uninstalled it a while ago. I’m really confused because I didn’t think websites could send notifications through chrome
Open the Chrome menu, go to Settings > Site Settings > All Sites. Check if you have Tiktok in there, click the site and you’ll see a Clear & reset button. Clicking the button should remove any notifications from the site coming from Chrome.
Here is the answer! Lemmy give you an upvote!
websites can indeed send you notifications but it you get asked and also you can turn those off somewhere
So I don’t know how this works on Android, but maybe you can try re-installing the app? On iOS the push token changes for each install of the app. Super weird that can happen…
Holy 54 tabs batman!
Don’t ask me how I know the safari tab limit is 500
right? it’s so annoying and such a “but why” moment
May as well put my phone’s ram to use!
You can always download more RAM.
:)
That shit should be super illegal.
Sign up to Anonaddy, instead of giving out your real email addresses use aliases. That way when companies pull this shit you just deactivate the alias.
Wow, I had no idea this existed. Ty
There is also Simplelogin. I use both since you get a limited number of aliases in their free tiers.
How does that even work? Is it even possible to do that on mobile?
Many websites seem to ask to give me notifications these days
