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Re:Ask HN: Techwise, how did TikTok get so good? by encoderer on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:25PM (#34423426)
Is Reddit what engineering at scale looks like when not funded by a surveillance monopoly?
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Re:Ask HN: Techwise, how did TikTok get so good? by hengheng on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @03:30AM (#34424627)
Or not funded at all, which is both its curse and its blessing.
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Re:Ask HN: Techwise, how did TikTok get so good? by revolvingocelot on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @12:18PM (#34429643)
Don't fret, surveillance is still baked right in. The video player is bad so that one installs the app, whose video player, and ability to spy on the user, is much superior to that of the browser.

The various ol., old., and i. subdomains, which still allow access to a functional reddit with a functional video player, are there to keep the old-school power users from revolting, for now, anyway.

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