I Trained My TikTok

Re:I Trained My TikTok by throwaway290 on Monday May 16, 2022 @05:34AM (#31395022)

1. In my experience, this is only true for blank accounts where algorithm doesn't have much to go by. Not the case for me.

2. If you don't want to register a video, you can remove it from your watch history, or you can watch it anonymously. What about TikTok?

3. I know TikTok has a 10 minute limit now, I meant 40 minutes and up. Where in the world do 10 minutes count as "long"?

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Re:I Trained My TikTok by ohgodplsno on Monday May 16, 2022 @06:58AM (#31395481)

1/ 10 year old account. Worse than ever

2/ you can dislike the video and tell it not to recommend it (unlike YouTube), and you can watch the videos on their website anonymously

3/ are you seriously watching 40+ minutes on your phone? They have two different goals, and that's fine.

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Re:I Trained My TikTok by throwaway290 on Monday May 16, 2022 @12:55PM (#31400199)

> you can watch the videos on their website anonymously

And do you personally ever do that? How exactly? The crippled slow 'online viewer' that doesn't allow you to even do a simple search and blocks you with a login wall after a couple of minutes?

> are you seriously watching 40+ minutes on your phone? They have two different goals, and that's fine.

Yes, why not? An informative hands-on engineering workshop or an interview with a screenwriter easily run hours. If you will say 'TikTok is not designed for that', well that's my point, YouTube has equally great recommendation system and is designed for that equally as well as it's designed for 30-second cute animal videos.

> 10 year old account

Sorry to hear that YouTube is broken for you. I just can't imagine using TikTok for anything informative, like TFA suggests, when something like YouTube exists.

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