Yes, there are several privacy-focused alternative TikTok frontends:
ProxiTok is the main open-source alternative frontend for TikTok[1]. It allows you to:
Watch TikTok videos without connecting to TikTok servers
Create following lists to track specific users
Access RSS feeds for users and trending content
Browse without ads or tracking
StickTock is another privacy frontend that lets you watch TikTok content by replacing “tiktok.com” with “sticktock.com” in any video URL[2]. It offers both clearnet and Tor onion addresses.
Offtiktok provides similar functionality by adding “off” before “tiktok” in URLs[3]. It includes a minimalist feed for watching recommended videos without ads or geo-restrictions.
All these frontends are:
Free and open-source
Self-hostable
Privacy-focused (requests go through their servers instead of directly to TikTok)
(Worse that there don’t exist any front-end viable for Facebook/Meta)
Generated answer from Andi
ProxiTok - GitHub ↩︎
StickTock: A New Open-Source Privacy Frontend for TikTok ↩︎
GitHub - MarsHeer/offtiktok ↩︎