Avoiding the app is not enough. The article is mostly about tiktok following you around the net with tracking pixels, without even having the app installed. They pay the biggest web companies to include tiktoks tracking pixel on their sites, just like googl and meta do. So yea: get a good adblocker.

Here’s how it works. TikTok, for example, encourages companies to put pixels on their websites to help the social media giant harvest more data. Let’s say I have an online shoe store. If I use a pixel, it lets TikTok collect lots of data about my customers in order to show them targeted ads. Plus, it helps TikTok figure out whether people who see those shoe ads end up making a purchase.

The - article - is -literally - stating - that- users - are - being - tracked - on - non-ticktok - domains.