Evil Week: How to View Someone Else’s TikToks Anonymously
Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games,…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Do It for the Plot
Inspiration comes from unexpected places this week—places like an Indian restaurant in Bowling Green, Kentucky and TikTok’s recommendation algorithm. Young are people doing it for the plot, wallowing in their…
Use This Extension to Block Sponsored Ads on YouTube
There are many ways to watch YouTube ad-free (I highly recommend YouTube Premium). But even if you shell out $13.99 per month to remove autoplay ads on YouTube, you still…
YouTube Lets You Sort Videos By Color Now, for Some Reason
When you fire up YouTube, what types of videos do you look for? A deep dive on a brand-new video game? A clip from your favorite movie from 15 years…
How to Hide Your OnlyFans Payments History
There are around 210 million registered users to OnlyFans, a social media platform featuring digital marketing advice, fitness content, vocabulary lessons, and anything else you can think of. There’s also…
What to Know Before Paying for YouTube TV
YouTube TV has turned into a popular choice for cord cutters. The service applies the familiar yet simple YouTube interface to the traditional live TV experience, and it’s better for…
You Should Turn Off Your YouTube Watch History
When I open YouTube these days, it’s mostly a mess. Sure, the videos they recommend me to watch vaguely resemble the type of content I’m interested in. But for the…
ikTok, Meta, Twitter, and YouTube All Have Different Plans for 2024 Election Misinformation
It’s never easy to separate political speech from disinformation in a democracy built upon the right of free speech, but the firehose of foreign and domestic weaponized bullshit that began…
TikTok ‘Diet’ of the Week: The Ice Hack for Weight Loss Is an Ad for a Dumb Supplement
TikTok is full of weight loss “hacks,” most of them misleading, overblown, just plain wrong, or recycled from misinformation of yore (or all of the above). The latest: something involving…
Where to Find Good, Ethical Porn
Porn is fun, and a great way for us to explore sexual pleasure by ourselves or with a partner, but mainstream pornography is also problematic. It’s often catered to the…