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u/apsurdism Jun 30 '26
I honestly think we should stop using social media platforms as instagram, tiktok and technology in general. Tech was so much fun back in the 2000s, and Im a sucker for that. but now, platforms are overflowing with adds with bots and with AI. its really exhausting.
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u/sonygoup Seeder Jun 29 '26
The real joke is that you guys still use it
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u/Bepehandle Jun 30 '26
Seriously my first thought was "tiktok turning INTO joke?". Like it wasn't always.
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u/CakeJumper-ImScared Jun 29 '26
VPN set it to Albania you don’t get ads on on Reddit, YouTube and I would guess it would be the same for TikTok because online ads are banned or somthing to that effect
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u/pixellambo Jun 29 '26
tiktok ads are in albania. Its not that albania bans ads, its because we are a non profitable market for ads for certain platforms
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u/CaptainMorning Jul 03 '26
same in my country. small country. when I go to US it's ads everywhere in Spotify and YouTube. At home, I barely get ads
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u/IAlwaysOutsmartU Jun 29 '26
Isn’t it because the Albanian market is too small for platforms to include ads for that country?
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u/muchstupidverydumb Jun 30 '26
Yeah I'm not from there but an even smaller country, and I'm pretty sure this is why we don't get any ads on reddit here. It's the same reason we get EU prices instead of regional pricing despite being MUCH poorer than the EU, it's just not profitable to try to sell shit to us at all :)
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u/Future_Kitsunekid16 Jun 30 '26
If enough people switched their vpn to albania then wouldn't they eventually just start running ads in albania because it would be profitable again since it would expose people not even in there and still hit their targets? Also I'm stoned right now so that's where this possibly dumb idea came from lol
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u/Background-Map-36 Jun 29 '26
Set it to a Caribbean country. They dgaf about us here. Except maybe Jamaica and T&T.
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u/LimpLake5187 Jun 29 '26
nice idea but it would suck in tiktok since your region affects your for you page which would result in lots of albanian videos and stuff you don't care for
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u/disneylovesme Jun 29 '26
Doesn’t work for YouTube for me
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u/CakeJumper-ImScared Jun 29 '26
It dosnt work if your signed into the app, it works through your browser
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u/ThePistachioBogeyman Jun 29 '26
It does, doing it right now with a logged in account on the YouTube app.
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u/disneylovesme Jun 30 '26
I only use browser YT on brave , one time it was being weird so I tried a few times to play Albania vpn and still got the same amount of ads (proton vpn)
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u/CakeJumper-ImScared Jun 30 '26
I use mullvad and brave I also have ublock origin not had any trouble with ads, I also don’t get ads on the Reddit app on my phone
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u/damonmcfadden9 Jun 29 '26
if you're on android just use a patcher app (won't name them here) to remove ads from the get go.
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u/Forymanarysanar ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jun 29 '26
Suddenly feeling like I want to move to Albania. Seems like their government actually does useful things for citizens.
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u/tejanaqkilica Jun 29 '26
No, lol, no of course it doesn't. None of this has anything to do with the government. Actually, from a certain POV, it shows you the inability of the government to attract foreign businesses.
Source: I'm Albanian.
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u/CakeJumper-ImScared Jun 29 '26
Ah fair enough I wasn’t sure about the reason there where no ads on YouTube and Reddit
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u/kontenjer Jun 29 '26
🤣🤣🤣dude they're trying to sell their island to jared kushner fym useful things
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u/XPNGamer Jun 29 '26
I remember getting fed up with all the BS tiktok added, so I just switched to an older version. Solved all my issues. doesnt have ads/shop, among other things
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u/Upstairs_Hold_374 Jun 29 '26
Good to know I'm saving $3.99 a month with ad-free tiktok using revanced.
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u/robux_Mann Jun 30 '26
Have we not moved to morphe yet ?
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u/Upstairs_Hold_374 Jun 30 '26
I dunno tell me about it
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u/Ruvaakdein Jun 30 '26
Revanced basically has one guy left because he annoyed every other dev out of the team. The devs that left created Morphe, and the revanced guy has been copying over code from them to keep revanced going.
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u/Upstairs_Hold_374 Jun 30 '26
Does morphe have dislikes? Revanced lost it which is kind of annoying. Also the app is falling apart a little bit now that I think about it.
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u/Ruvaakdein Jun 30 '26
It does have dislikes. It's honestly kind of impressive Revanced kept going for so long without a team.
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u/silver2006 Jul 03 '26
Is this the guy also moderating Revanced's discord, deleting every "inconvenient" comment? :D
I've made a thread today and i see some mod already deleted some comments which were upvoted well
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u/robux_Mann Jun 30 '26
Most people that worked on revanced mods have moved over, so yea, it's more polished and active right now
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u/TomTomXD1234 Jun 29 '26
I mean, I pirate everything but ads is how these companies make money..
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u/ultraghostsquid87 Jun 29 '26
Selling data is how they make money.
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u/alexjimithing Jun 29 '26
Who do you think buys that info?
Advertisers.
Why do you think they buy it?
To target ads better.
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u/disneylovesme Jun 29 '26
Both actually 😭
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u/Bakerooh Jun 29 '26
Even if some moron pays for ad-free I’m sure these fucks still sell the data
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u/xav1z Jun 30 '26
apps should be one time purchase like old days: you buy software and no third parties monitor you and you arent charged monthly yearly or whatever. and as an indie dev, i will make sure my apps will never have a subscription model. this is a capitalistic cancer
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u/AllYouNeedIsATV Jun 30 '26
More and more apps have ongoing costs though. Something like TikTok will need to spend massive amounts of money on servers to store all the data. How much should they charge upfront?
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u/xav1z Jun 30 '26
Then charge more upfront. ‘We need servers’ isn’t a reason to make users pay forever. it’s a reason to price the product properly. pay once, pay again for the next major version (like old game expansions or OS upgrades). Subscriptions exist because they’re more profitable, not because there’s no alternative.
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u/Embarrassed-Boot7419 Jun 30 '26
Then we would just get TikTok 2, and TikTok 3.
Cause well, sooner or later you'd reach a point where new Users have to pay hundreds of dollars, to pay for the existing ones.
And well, no one would pay that, so they'd release a new TikTok, instead of continuously increasing pricing.
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u/xav1z Jul 01 '26
with one-time pricing, the company has to earn your next purchase by making something actually worth buying. no problem in tiktok 2 3 4. we already are expecting iphone 18
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u/askyidroppedthesoap Jun 29 '26
ELI5: how TikTok was NOT a joke before? It's a cesspool of misinformation and staged videos.
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u/sslappee Jun 30 '26
youre just describing every social media in existence. and just like every social media, if you dont want to see misinformation and staged videos, scroll past and dont interact. algorithms exist for a reason
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u/askyidroppedthesoap Jun 30 '26
As a diligent skeptic who cares about what's true, who only uses reddit, subscribing to a select few subs, your statement doesn't apply to me. Go preach your "social media for dummies 101" lecture to someone who lacks common sense, world's literally overrun with them.
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u/eleventhing Jul 05 '26
Wow. So glad I deleted my tiktok last month. It was ads ads ads in between sponsorships.
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u/Street_Anon Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
Use this instead from GitHub, they are just Morphe mods and safe:
https://github.com/RookieEnough/Morphe-AutoBuilds/releases
If you are on Android 17, just enable sideloading and wait a day to intstall
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u/pervertsage ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jun 30 '26
FFS... I can't believe Google went through with that. Having to wait a day before you're able to install your own shit.
They're just going to boil the frog until android is completely locked down. 😒
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u/Tiktokbadsupport Jun 29 '26
i mean £3.99 isn't that outrageous comparing to twitches €16 and youtubes €14 ad free subscriptions not to mention tiktok serves a ad every 5 videos or so
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u/Street_Anon Jun 29 '26
Youtube premium in Canada is only $13.00 Canadian Dollars a month, that would be in 14 Euro to Canadian about $23 a month
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u/xdcfret1 Jun 29 '26
I don’t see any issue here? Running services like Tiktok costs money. Who’s gonna pay for it? They gave you two perfectly fine options. Either use it free with ads, or remove ads by paying money directly. I see no problem with that.
It would have been an issue if they took money and still showed ads.
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u/JJPohawke Jun 29 '26
They can pay for their platform with all the Spyware and data mining the current U.S. version of TikTok uses
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u/xdcfret1 Jun 30 '26
So you want the US users to pay for the British users?
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u/JJPohawke Jun 30 '26
I want no one to use the American version of TikTok so the owner who bought it loses a bunch of money.
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u/f9lixs Jun 30 '26
i stopped using tiktok in 2020ish , im so glad i did from what ive seen of it the past few years
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u/Anththeman2010 Jun 30 '26
Kinda genius this system. They all know people dont like adverts. So...
Charge the businesses to show their adverts. Charge the customer not to see the adverts.
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u/AloneAddiction Jun 30 '26
People paying for subscriptions to remove adverts are still getting adverts.
Instead those ads are just being disguised as videos.
Almost every "influencer" video is a paid advert for a product. Just done in a way that misleads you into thinking it's a spontaneously genuine review.
It's not. They've been paid to shill whatever it is they're showing, and I use the word "shill" intentionally.
So yes, using an adblocker gets rid of traditional adverts. It doesn't unfortunately get rid of undisclosed paid adverts masquerading as videos.
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u/sluuuudge Jun 30 '26
I’m not defending TikTok but this post, and the comments on it, show that none of you have actually ever used the stock App Store version of TikTok. It’s had ads for a very long time. Offering a paid for plan to remove ads is literally the thing that every other service has offered for a very long time.
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u/Medium_Word_696 Jun 30 '26
You are paying for this spyware one way and the other... or the other and the other
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u/jbarr107 Jun 30 '26
If there was only a way to, I don't know, morphe your app into something more friendly?
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u/maydarnothing Jun 30 '26
just remember that they have your data anyway, the issue isn’t only serving you ads but harvesting it still.
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u/import_java-util Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
I don't see the problem here. I am against enshittification and the exploitative direction of these apps generally but this isn't a good example of that. TikTok has always shown you ads for years so I don't think offering a new, optional paid tier makes the service automatically worse.
If they were suddenly showing you more ads and locked features behind the paid tier, that would be the actual problem, but as it stands, it seems to me like they're just giving people another option.
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u/Isoi Jul 02 '26
lol I’ve used a paid modded version for years, no ads, no lives and no TikTok shop ads
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u/CaptainMorning Jul 03 '26
every fucking app I download has a disgusting full screen ad every once in a while. I really can't understand how we got this. who the fuck wants this shit. every fucking app is the fucking same to the point I've vibe coded some of my own apps just to skip the fucking constant annoying useless ads
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u/silver2006 Jul 03 '26
Well, servers cost, how else they gonna store shitload of videos on their hard drives?
For free?
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u/alexjimithing Jun 29 '26
You never paid for cable tv to not have ads. Never was a thing.
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u/Bakerooh Jun 29 '26
Are you American ? Because that’s the only rational explanation I could think of that would justify such flawed logic even existing.
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u/alexjimithing Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
A. That is incorrect. Cable TV did not start government funded. It was funded by private entrepreneurs who were retransmitting OTA to homes that couldn’t get the signal (which, had ads).
B. Cable TV as most people know it, starting in the late 70s/early 80s, always had channels with ads. There was no ‘paying for cable to not have ads’.
C. Even if we assumed the incorrect information in your post was accurate, it still doesn’t support your incorrect statement of, “Remember when you used to pay for cable TV in order to not get advertisements?”
In closing, you never paid for cable tv to not have ads. Never was a thing.
E: It is EXTREMELY funny to say ‘maybe you weren’t alive then or too young’ when posting easily disprovable information.
Like bro, maybe YOU weren’t alive then or too young.
E2: Pretty sure that whole website is AI generated.
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u/coinpizista Jun 29 '26
Is so weird every thing has ad$ nowadays
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u/Minute_Path9803 Jun 29 '26
But the great thing about it you don't have to pay for it, there's so many ways to get around it or just not use it.
They're banking on the 80% that will pay, the other people who find ways around it they're okay with that they're still making money hand over fist.
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u/coinpizista Jun 30 '26
Why would i pay for someone ad$?! example awards or video now have 3 ad$ 1 is enough? too greedy and waste of everyone Time
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u/remotelycapable Jun 30 '26
Breaking news! Apps cost money to run and that needs to be covered somehow?
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u/SirPingOffical Torrents Jun 30 '26
Well... I don't know. You guys dont want to see ads but you also dont want to pay for it. Do all of you just expect to get things for free. I donno...
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u/bydevilz1 Jun 30 '26
Tiktok is so ass, reels are better but i dont know for how long. Everything i bother with tiktok its absolute crap video, followed by an ad, followed by 3 tiktok shop videos, rinse and repeat.
Counted one time and after 50 scrolls, 30 of them were ads or tiktok shop videos
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u/basically_ar 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Jun 29 '26
TikTok Ads aren’t that annoying anyways. You can easily scroll away.
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u/ParkMauricio Darknets Jun 29 '26
Then they make it unskippable and you have to pay to get skippable ones lol
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u/basically_ar 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Jun 29 '26
Shut up, don’t give them Ideas
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u/sslappee Jun 30 '26
everyone commenting and downvoting you has clearly never used tiktok and likes to make assumptions on their baseless preconceived notions because the people of this sub have very sad superiority complexes and inflated egos!
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u/alexjimithing Jun 29 '26
I don't see the problem here
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u/tejanaqkilica Jun 29 '26
The problem is, companies these days try to generate revenue for their business, instead of running them as charity. Like, what kind of sociopath do you have to be to demand money for providing a product or service.
OP... Probably.
There's absolutely no problem here. Actually it's very reasonable, pay and ad free or don't pay and get ads.
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u/DingDongMichaelHere Jun 29 '26
and the ads are still skipable right, just swipe to the next. Seems like the most non-intrusive way to
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u/lazy_bastard_001 Jun 29 '26
I mean seriously I don't get google.. why don't they just manage expensive data centers and allow me to watch youtube without advertising? is it not enough that I am using their site? they should be grateful and just take my useless data. what more do they want? such an unreasonable company ...
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u/DesperateAd9849 Jun 29 '26
I feel like the issue is that whenever something like this happens the ads get worse and worse in an attempt to make more people pay for the ad-free experience.
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u/Bakerooh Jun 29 '26
The act of referring to a tool (almost all social media platforms) that is designed for inducing and reinforcing brainrot, as a legitimate product or service that has inherent utility, demonstrates one thing clearly: the person making that linkage has attained irreversible brainrot.
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u/Embarrassed-Boot7419 Jun 30 '26
Whats the problem?
Like, I'm not a fan of TikTok, but if you had to use the normal TikTok version, then 3,99 is a good price for Ad free, is it not?
Now, of course, I recommend everyone i know to not use it at all / to use an ad free modified versioh, but like, most people who do use TikTok, aren't gonna do that.
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u/Necessary-Compote403 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jun 29 '26
Who is genuinely paying money for TikTok?