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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

TikTok users are deleting the app, with removals up 150% following US joint venture

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

WIBC

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

Nobody cares for you like family.

0:04.3

Family heating and air.

0:06.2

When you call to have your home or businesses heating and air serviced, what do you expect from them?

0:10.0

The salesman in a colorful truck?

0:11.7

Or do you expect a highly trained expert with your best intentions in mind?

0:14.6

The answer is obvious.

0:15.7

Call the company that treats you like family.

0:17.4

My name's Malian.

0:18.0

I look forward to answering your call.

0:19.4

Family heating and air conditioning is your trusted local independent American standard heating and air conditioning dealer.

0:23.8

Nobody cares for you like family. Family heating and air.

0:30.5

It changed hands and now everybody is up and arms about it. There's talk about TikTok.

0:36.3

Over the past five days, U.S. users have deleted TikTok.

0:42.3

It has, they've uninstalled at an increase of 155 percent.

0:48.3

Okay. Compared with the previous three months. Okay.

0:51.3

They announced that TikTok U.S. operations are going to move to that new

0:56.4

joint venture under Adam Presser. He was named the CEO. You've also got people like Larry

1:03.0

Ellison in charge. And that has prompted many TikTok users to delete the app. They say that there is a new privacy policy, which requires consent

1:14.6

for data collection, including information like racial and ethnic origin, sexual orientation,

1:22.2

citizenship, and even financial info. And this is the reason that has prompted many people to say, no, thank you.

1:30.8

Because if the threat of China having your information before wasn't enough,

1:35.0

now they're saying that the U.S. operations are taking it one step further.

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