7mo ago

Did tiktok change something?

I have friends that send me tiktok links via whatsapp and then they ask questions about it like "what do you think, scam or not". I used to open them with cookies rejected in ddg browser but now it pretends to freeze after 4 seconds of play, then it says that i must open it in the app and replaces the "play" button with a fake button that leads to google play.

I assume that there's no way to watch it anymore without an account and without the app, right?

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You can just reply "scam" and save yourself the time and agony of watching tick tocks without sacrificing the accuracy of your response.
- Lol good idea

Ask your friend to download the video and send it to you instead
- Yeah, we have this unwritten rule in my friend group to never send links to any videos no matter where they're from. You download the video and send the file
  
  Even lemmy?

Proxitok is a front end for tiktok https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok/wiki/Public-instances
- LOL "cringe" as subdomain in my instances 😂

There exists a frontend called Proxitok, but I can't comment on how well it works or what it can do. The LibRedirect addon for Firefox can redirect you to the instance of your choosing.
Great addon in general, do check it out if you don't know it already.

If I absolutely had to watch a tiktok video, I would try giving the link to yt-dlp. That can probably download it.
- i tried and it didn't work - but maybe it's because it was the "vm.tiktok..." shortened link that tracks the user that shared it (when i open that link i can see a banner with a photo of my friend and "join tiktok with [friend name]"
  next time i should try to open the link, get the real url, then use that
  
  Ah! I would have guessed it could handle that too, with the platform being so popular.

I can confirm I also get this. What a shitty site.

Are you sure it isn't a scam?

When I don't have the time to enable sheltered apps, I use Firefox with uBlock and AutoCookieDelete to watch the links
Last time I did this was a few hours ago

Respond with "I think it is a scam. The website seems pretty sketchy."
Also proxitok

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