TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers
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I have just realized that in of 2020 TikTok was about to get banned in US by Trump administration and he even signed an executive order for the ban. But since he lost elections later that year, ban was reversed by Biden administration.
THE FUCKING SAME EXACT THING HAPPENED IN REVERSE IN 2025 when Biden's admin ordered it to be banned in january and it was unbanned (postponed ban) 3 times with the last one lasting until September.
I call extreme sus on this one. There are weird powers around tiktok that are/were important in info-war and elections in general.
They just wanted to control it, but tiktok called their bluff
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I can’t imagine how this could go poorly. /s
TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers
"If your girl says she’s just out with friends every night, you’d better slap one of these on her car."
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This isn't new at all. Those devices have existed forever.
Luckily being sold on TikTok they will be so crappy that they won't even be able to property track anyone.
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Mechanics would routinely pull them off of women's cars and people would get arrested.
Really? I'm almost 50 and this is the first time I've ever heard that. Do you have any data to back up that claim?
When I was a kid my dad put one of these on my mom's car. I found it. About the size of a wallet
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TikTok shop also sells glock switches (to make them automatic pistols), galaxy gas/nitrous tanks and god knows what else.
There are ways to make any firearm fully automatic. Some are even legal. Why anyone wants to blow $50 in under 30s is beyond me though. Even military uses burst for a reason, your aim will be off 10 bullets in. Suppression is a different story, but less likely a situation for avg citizens (for now).
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There is no good solution. Daily life is littered with bluetooth, gps, and other devices, from watches to appliances to car stereos, many of which are not clearly named at all. You can Use a bluetooth scanner app like LightBlue to see what devices are around you as many of the trackers use bluetooth connections as well. Check for unfamiliar devices with strong signals if you park your car someplace away from others in a parking lot or something.
Latest Android versions will alert you if they find an unregistered tag consistently close to you. No app needed. I assume apple has the same at the system software level....
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Latest Android versions will alert you if they find an unregistered tag consistently close to you. No app needed. I assume apple has the same at the system software level....
So does apple. But it only works for tags associated with the OS, such as Tile or AirTags. Not some random make.
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What? They haven't changed anything since they were supposed to be banned.
Trump just keeps pushing back the deadline. Right now it'd be banned Sept 17th, but presumably he'll push it back again.
It's just too popular for the administration to take the flak for it disappearing while they're in office
Tictok shutdown for a week or however long it was. Then we see it's CEO sitting alongside Trump, Zuck and the rest of the oligarchs at the inauguration. Shortly after, the service goes live again followed by user complaints about their feeds being different.
It's not confirmed but the theory is that tictok is now feeding data to meta, or even running off their servers entirely, so that the US government has easy access to everything.
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This isn't new at all. Those devices have existed forever.
Luckily being sold on TikTok they will be so crappy that they won't even be able to property track anyone.
The news is that they're being promoted (very successfully) on TT, not that they exist.
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They just wanted to control it, but tiktok called their bluff
Err I think you meant they wanted their pay off. Tik Tok is still around so I think they got their bribe, multiple times/administrations
I am sure there are also individuals who would love to control the platform as well.
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What? They haven't changed anything since they were supposed to be banned.
Trump just keeps pushing back the deadline. Right now it'd be banned Sept 17th, but presumably he'll push it back again.
It's just too popular for the administration to take the flak for it disappearing while they're in office
The app broke for a few days with a message kissing Dump's ass, and when it came back, all videos that mentioned fascism had been removed