TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale

Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by nonethewiser on Thursday April 17, 2025 @12:14PM (#43718906)

>I considered doing the same but in the end decided I don’t want to use a platform I have to fight against, while still letting them build brand recognition to my kid.

>So I downloaded a bunch of the videos on our desktop and blocked the site.

Downloading videos from youtube and blocking the site seems more like fighting against the platform (and more work) than turning on a whitelist mode. Seems like the end result is the same but with more work.

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Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by LtWorf on Thursday April 17, 2025 @12:34PM (#43719173)

Maybe he's downloading kid's cartoons from telegram… he didn't say where he's downloading from.

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Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by kridsdale1 on Thursday April 17, 2025 @01:02PM (#43719531)

Telegram is a media piracy platform now? I had no idea.

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Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by LtWorf on Thursday April 17, 2025 @06:01PM (#43722698)

Since like forever. No reason to downvote me just because you weren't aware.

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Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by bcoughlan on Friday April 18, 2025 @08:54AM (#43727608)

I’m talking youtube-dl and VLC player. No YouTube logos, no concept of what YouTube even is.

Even the sidebar of recommendations is a dark pattern for a 3 year old. Unlike Netflix etc where you have to exit the video to browse something else.

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