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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.

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.

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[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Wow. That is a giant number. The change made was not good.

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[–] MissingGhost@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is nobody else concerned that "they" know when software is installed or uninstalled?

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

I remember when tiktok was getting blocked. People got pretty riled up that they didn't have access to their propaganda app anymore.

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

You had installed already?

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