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Did tiktok change something? (feddit.it)
submitted 6 months ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 63 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 5 points 6 months ago

Lol good idea

[–] stuckgum@lemmy.ml 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ask your friend to download the video and send it to you instead

[–] Rez@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Even lemmy?

[–] AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Proxitok is a front end for tiktok https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok/wiki/Public-instances

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 7 points 6 months ago

LOL "cringe" as subdomain in my instances 😂

[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] Tyoda@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If I absolutely had to watch a tiktok video, I would try giving the link to yt-dlp. That can probably download it.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tyoda@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Ah! I would have guessed it could handle that too, with the platform being so popular.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

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

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago

Are you sure it isn't a scam?

[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

Also proxitok