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A very hacky solution that I've found to combat TikTok's infinite feed is to scroll up instead. I skip to the 20-th video in the feed, watch each video, and the
by ReaLNero 5y ago
A very hacky solution that I've found to combat TikTok's infinite feed is to scroll up instead. I skip to the 20-th video in the feed, watch each video, and then exit once I'm done with the 20. Hitting the top gives you an off-ramp to get out of the app.
- tsian2 5y agoFor other things I make use of the "work offline" mode, to see what's loaded in and then leave. I'd like it if browser devs stopped pushing that future further away and maybe gave it a hotkey.
- vgel 5y agoThis is genius, definitely going to give this a try.
- polio 5y agoIf you enjoy the product, this risks skewing the input to the recommendation algorithm. Presumably they use time spent to determine what content you enjoy.
- sixstringtheory 5y agoNot sure I follow, it doesn’t sound like any particular post would be on screen any longer than normal, unless you’re suggesting that time since load is what is measured instead of time on screen (or time since last scroll), or that they use overall duration of the app session to infer things about all the posts that were loaded.
- ec109685 5y agoIt might register a whole bunch of skips, and skips might be weighted more than re-runs (or not and it’s a good technique!). TikTok is ridiculously captivating. I just don’t use it because it sucks me in.