Somehow, TikTok is sending me notifications even though I don't have the app. And in order to disable them I have to install it.

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ITT: User complains that he doesn't understand WebApps and bitches at TikTok 🤣.

Though to be fair, the Tiktok should definitely delete the notification subscription from their database if the account is being deleted.

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?

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.

You have some kind of swear word filter. They said 'bitches' or if that also gets censored, the plural of female dogs, but as a verb.

That's odd, because other comments don't appear to be censored. I'm on lemmy.ml

Looks like an instance specific thing. Not getting that on lemme.ee