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Yeah ... I begrudgingly have WhatsApp because everyone else uses it. I've already opted out of FB Marketplace which everyone around my area uses apparently.
I keep getting links to Instagram or Tiktok and I have to find the "continue to web" link just to know what my friends are showing me.
I also don't know why AliExpress and Temu want me to install their apps. There's like no way I'm going to install an app for that ...
When people send me tiktok videos i just answer "remember that i don't have tiktok so i can't see it?" And after a while, they download it for me
nahh, I just don't let tiktok people come near me :)
What do you mean they download it for you?
It's not a matter of lazyness, there are quite a few work rounds described even under this post. It's a matter of principle. The harder companies make it to watch it's content without a user, the less I'm going to use it. Not jump through hoops to still watch it's content. Social media has become a cancer and should be avoided like the disease it is. It should be treated with utter contempt.
Remain strong to your stance. All my friends know theres no point to send any videos as most no longer work without an app and are complete eyesore to watch in browser mode and i absolutely refuse to defile my phone with tiktok. So if they actually want to show me a good video, they have to physically come to me and show it from their phone. That kinda guarantees that the video is good enough.
They download the video using the shitty app and send it to me, what else i should mean?
Dom't put words in my mouth, thank you
That's why i tell them to dowload the video for me and send in chat instead of sending of expecting me to use tiktok
Fair, my bad. I misunderstood. i did interpet it as downloading the app to your phone, as i wasn't aware that those videos could obviously be downloaded as well.
Seal is a good workaround app for seeing videos behind links you don't want to open. Sometimes I get Instagram or tiktok links I can't open, so I just paste the video link into the downloader, watch it once, and then discard it.