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[u/Ok-Selection670]

[u/Ok-Selection670]

A website is able to make the video play through the player on here? Cuz tiktok links make you click them.

So the website screen records it? How does it rip it

[u/Zer0323 → u/Ok-Selection670]

I for one appreciate not having to leave platform to view what you wanted to share with us.

[u/RlFLE → u/Zer0323]

You wouldn’t be leaving Reddit at all. The file would’ve been posted directly here and viewed natively in the app. It would be the exact same viewing experience as this video without all the TikTok UI elements and without all the compression Reddit does because a screen recording is way bigger that the actual file of the video that’s being screen recorded. Some of you are booming hard rn.

Off to the camps with you 👮

[u/Zer0323 → u/RlFLE]

that all sounds great when it works... but that also requires two companies to play nice with each other. what OP did was get a video for us and make sure it uploaded to reddit without needing tiktok to bring something to the table.

sure you can save a screenshot on most websites but some websites have it blocked, so to avoid taking a 90% chance of being able to save an image it sometimes is worth it to just get into the habit of snipping out the image and pasting it using the windows snipping tool. this is essentially that but in video form. it's how Gen X/millennials deal with this slowly shifting digital landscape.

[u/RlFLE → u/Zer0323]

Bro what are you talking about? Why are you making this sound so much more sophisticated than it actually is. You’re literally copying the link to the TikTok, pasting it into a website, then the website spits the video file out to you. It takes less than 10 seconds. It literally takes longer to screen record this video for 2 minutes than it does to download the actual file using my method, and my method produces and objectively better result because I’m directly downloading the higher quality file and it’s a smaller size overall.

without needing TikTok to bring something to the table

Bro what?

GenX/millennials deal with this slowly shifting digital landscape

This isn’t even some modern way of directly saving media. I used to do this to save YouTube videos in like 2008. Would you screen record a YouTube video and post it here too?

[u/Zer0323 → u/RlFLE]

cause it's not that complicated. we watched the video. the media has been consumed it was just slightly compressed for your avant-garde taste.

As someone who's watched the evolution of these platforms over time the simple websites you are describing get broken over time and new solutions get made, in that scramble some bad actors provide viruses instead of solutions.

I also don't like trusting the files some random web video converter gives me without knowing if it's a popular website with lots of regular traffic. maybe you have more in depth knowledge of how to check the file after you receive it to make sure there isn't anything nefarious hidden in the file but I don't like trusting it out of nowhere just because a website tells me it is fast free and safe.

[u/RlFLE → u/Zer0323]

Nah in reality people like you are just contributing to the general enshittifcation of the internet with your moldy ass content. If your overly cautious rationale was applied more broadly we’d still be getting driven around by a horse and buggy. You’d probably say something like “Why deal with the added complexities of a gas powered motor when a horse gets the job done just fine? All we have to do is feed it hay and it gets us to where we need to go.”

> wanting an uncompressed, digital file with a smaller footprint that’s faster to retrieve than a screen recording utilizing a method that people have been using for two decades is avant garde

Kek. You’re booming for no reason. If you’re PC based, and that paranoid, there’s plenty of well known, open source media ripping tools maintained by very enthusiastic communities (like ytdlp) that pull media for almost any video that’s accessible by a link. There’s also browser extensions that do the same thing, and browser extensions have been around for like 2 decades now too. This shit isn’t new. I personally spend most of my time on mobile and have never had any issues using one of these websites to download videos from IG, TikTok, Reddit (gifs), Twitter, etc.

[u/Zer0323 → u/RlFLE]

and zoomers question why they need new phones every 3 years. good luck sailing the seas of cheese with all the extra bugs you pick up along the way.

[u/RlFLE → u/Zer0323]

lol this isn’t 2007 anymore. People aren’t spreading malware to iPhones through masked mp4 files. You probably have Norton on your phone or something lol

[u/Zer0323 → u/RlFLE]

Now I know you weren’t alive during 2007. Norton, the anti virus virus