I have friends that send me tiktok links via whatsapp and then they ask questions about it like “what do you think, scam or not”. I used to open them with cookies rejected in ddg browser but now it pretends to freeze after 4 seconds of play, then it says that i must open it in the app and replaces the “play” button with a fake button that leads to google play.
I assume that there’s no way to watch it anymore without an account and without the app, right?
If I absolutely had to watch a tiktok video, I would try giving the link to yt-dlp. That can probably download it.
i tried and it didn’t work - but maybe it’s because it was the “vm.tiktok…” shortened link that tracks the user that shared it (when i open that link i can see a banner with a photo of my friend and “join tiktok with [friend name]”
next time i should try to open the link, get the real url, then use that
Ah! I would have guessed it could handle that too, with the platform being so popular.