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Study: TikTok Lite is a 'safety hazard' for millions of users around the world


The low-bandwidth version of the popular app lacks several major safety features that could be potentially dangerous.

Second, it lacks basic user controls to help you block certain content or keywords and set screen time limits, like the main TikTok app does. "The safety features TikTok Lite lacks aren't complex and are perfectly compatible with a lower-bandwidth app," he wrote in the study. Promote these additions: Since users have spent a significant amount of time in the current TikTok Lite environment, simply adding the features isn't enough.

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