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Did tiktok change something? (feddit.it)

submitted 4 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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[–] stuckgum@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago

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

[–] AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 4 months ago

LOL "cringe" as subdomain in my instances 😂

[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 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 5 points 4 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 4 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 4 months ago

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

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

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

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Are you sure it isn't a scam?