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If you have an iPhone, there is a Safari extension you can download to help with this:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openclip-for-safari/id6708240044
This covers TikTok for free and for a one-time charge of $1.99 USD to support the developer, Instagram.
Whenever I get sent a link to a social media post in discord, I use a third party tool to embed the content. tiktok.com → tnktok.com for example
My friend keeps sending me Facebook stories. It hurts…
You try and look at it and its locked behind a private group
I usually reply with the copy-pasted text telling me so. 9/10 times someone saves and sends ir. Be petty!
This happened to a meme channel at a favorite discord, one guy just started spamming like a dozen tiktoks daily and it drowned out / disincentivized everyone else, and now it’s just an endless stream of face cams in vertical video that nobody watches and are likely a mirror of his personal feed. Nobody said anything to him because he’s cool enough that I think we all assumed he’d notice the trend but so far hasn’t…
Instagram too. My mom sends me instagram links, my friend who has his business account there sends me instagram links, and no matter how many times I tell them that I cannot watch their instagram links they keep sending them.
Instagram videos can be embedded on discord by adding kk before Instagram in the link, too (same for tiktok when the embed isn’t working), but I’m curious why y’all don’t say anything or maybe set up a channel for him to share? The fact that this post has so many upvotes makes me feel a bit sad, like it’s obvious to me why he still does it — he’s making a bid for connection with content he’s interested in and thinks y’all would enjoy. We’re social creatures. Stonewalling can be incredibly hurtful.
I agree with the sentiment but a tiktok video can still be a meme. You’re thinking of “image macros” or at least images & screenshots.
I think there’s some NewPipe-esque app that lets you see those without the app or logging in or being exposed to telemetry, etc. I forget what it is though
Cobalt works for TikTok links.
yt-dlp + mpv does the trick for me. I have a browser plugin that just opens any link directly in mpv. Works for almost all major video sites and many news sites.
Work on phone?
nope. There is a ytdlp client for android tho, so you can still download them and then just watch them in your preferred video player app. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.deniscerri.ytdl/
Thank you.
Some links please?
The following below is all linux only. Idk how windows works, but there is also this webhosted version of yt-dlp, but that is rate limited sometimes. https://ytdlp.online/
To get sponsorblock working in mpv: https://github.com/po5/mpv_sponsorblock
To open links from your browser in mpv: https://github.com/binarynoise/open-in-mpvmpv usually automatically installs the standard version of yt-dlp that comes with your system (which is often outdated) so you might have to manually install the latest binary by putting it into
.local/bin/(the version from the release list just called “yt-dlp” and nothing else) (you might have to relog so your system recognizes new stuff added to local/bin)So for the mpv + yt-dlp + sponsorblock + browser setup you need to:
- Have mpv installed
- Have a recent version of yt-dlp
- Put the files from the sponsorblock repo into
.config/mpv/scriptsas described in the repo - Put the
mpv-scheme-handler.desktopfile into.local/share/applications/and install the browser add-on linked in the repo
This btw also works neatly together with RSS readers if you use them for youtube notifications. Just set mpv as your browser in the RSS reader and it will directly open youtube vids in mpv.
If anything doesnt work just drop a comment :)
yo thanks for this information!
Still won’t follow.
I just really don’t want to watch tiktoks though.
Same with instagram.
yt-dlp works for instagram
woah sick
I don’t want to hear any more about memes.
…you, you don’t like joy? Or kindness? Or entertainment?
All you have to do is remove the ? And everything after it in the link they send you.
That will work for stripping any tracking out of URLs too—it’s what marks the start of a “query string,” which is used for UTMs
yeah but i think the issue is the platform, not the tracking
I tried this but I still ended up on TikTok
