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I block shorts on youtube, I don't care for short form content. Give me those hour long analysis type videos. Without shorts youtube still does a rather poor job at recommending new stuff.
That being said, shorts are being more addictive by nature since the barrier of entry to watch 'one more' is so low. If you engage with them on any app, you will waste more time on your phone.
Yes TikTok is a disease and I have it.
Your phone does too with all of their custom spyware...
๐ I'll bite. What custom spyware?
https://www.boredpanda.com/tik-tok-reverse-engineered-data-information-collecting/
Common. Steam does this. It's behind a permission these days and nothing is custom or special about this in any way.
Patched out and was common at the time via Androids API. Again zero secret sauce, most apps pulled this.
Bullshit provide some verification in the least bit. It's a random anonymous redditor mouthing off.
Again in the API patched out several years ago
More unverified bullshit.
Pro tip: when your source is a random redditor who definitely worked for tiktok maybe consider for a second that someone is just making up bullshit and reaching to push their objective.
You'd think for being the most spyware app on the planet you could provide a source from a professional and not a redditor.
They set up a local proxy server on your device for "transcoding media", but that can be abused very easily as it has zero authentication
Lemmy is not fantastic with condescending pricks like you posting comments.
You could have delivered your point without being an asshole about it.
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https://www.boredpanda.com/tik-tok-reverse-engineered-data-information-collecting/
The tiktok videos I get recommended are way too long and dense/informative for me to be able to watch too many at one time.
When I first started using it I made a point of skipping anything I considered dumb or any videos I couldn't fast forward through. Now, it's mostly all stuff about history and philosophy and I have to purposely search for new things. Still works way better than YouTube at recommending actually interesting content.