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Don't worry, when you blackhole the entire tiktok domain, you'll still be able to use grindr.

Or did you still want to be able to view tiktok?

Sorry. Can't help you there. Or can I? https://www.torproject.org/download/ or https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/proton-vpn-fast-sec...

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TikTok will de-anonymize you and connect you back to the ad networks in days, speaking as someone who tried really, really hard to not get it to do that.

They probably have the most sophisticated fingerprinting ever created.

Yep! And luckily Tor Browser works pretty hard at defending against that. It even goes so far as to box the rendered page resolution so it cannot be connected to the same resolution as your main browser.

But you can take first steps by using a simple dns proxy to make things more difficult.

I don't mean that, I mean behavior. The algorithm that is TikTok is running a test fingerprinting you with every video shown. It's like stylometry on steroids.

Honestly that probably makes it easier to fingerprint you. How many people do you think actually use Tor? Instead of needing to identify you from millions of users, now they just need to identify you from the five or so Tor users

> Don't worry, when you blackhole the entire tiktok domain, you'll still be able to use grindr.

Grindr can still sell your data.

It was a response to same-origin tracking. I didn’t claim grindr would not sell your data.

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