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ugjka on July 11, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: As TikTok grows, so does suspicion

It took me a month before TT actually figured out my interests. For some reason it thought I would be absolutely interested in the local content of Latvia (where i live)

bmarquez on July 11, 2022 [–]

I created a TikTok account with a VPN and for the first few days most of the content was tailored towards the faraway city that the VPN IP address pointed to. Geolocated IP is one of the few pieces of info TT has initially, so not surprised they rely on it.

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