TikTok is manipulative, addictive and I do wonder about privacy, but there are a number of factual errors in this post which make me question what axe the write

TikTok is manipulative, addictive and I do wonder about privacy, but there are a number of factual errors in this post which make me question what axe the writer has to grind. There are plenty of videos over a minute long. Yes, many are quite short, and creators aren’t allowed to post longer ones until they’ve have enough followers. However, recently TikTok upped the max time to 10 minutes. Short videos don’t have a timeline, but longer ones do, so saying “There is no signalization of progress or duration of the experience” is wrong. “the user cannot scroll up fast and jump a few videos” While you can’t literally avoid a fraction of a second of a video playing if you’re trying to skip, you can skip ahead a few videos pretty quickly. There’s also modes where you look at all of a creators video, or search for something and see a bunch. In those cases you can scroll past many smaller videos at once.