We watched 1,000 TikToks in one sitting. The algorithm served up a shocking number of ads, rivaling network TV.

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• EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  tik tok has a lot of ads.

  This is the entire news story.

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  • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For me, this is the real news:

    a shocking number of ads, rivaling network TV.

    Everyone being so shocked at Tiktok ads while they have been watching as many or even more ads via their daily TV sessions… for decades, and no one bats an eye at that?

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    • Gamoc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wtf are you talking about? Arguably the rise of streaming and TV recording is purely due to the disgusting amounts of advertising on TV. Streamers start adding ads to their paid services and everyone goes “this is why we stopped watching live TV, are you stupid, Netflix?” Nobody says an eye at TV ads? I literally have watched live TV for over a decade. What planet have you been living on?

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• admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “shocking”?

  What did they expect?

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  • xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Its business insider. They probably drank their own koolaid and assumed capitalism altruistically served up top tier content. The only other alternative piece would be justifying the deluge of ads as necessary and unavoidable to ensure the continued operation of tiktok

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So don’t use it like I don’t understand why people complain and then don’t do anything as a result of their complaint.

  Stop using the crappy platform. If you want video hosting there are literally way better options and predate tiktok

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  • adam_b@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • fuzzzerd@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think you’re right. I hate that you are, but reality points to that being the reason these platforms continue to grow and thrive.

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Seems like people are going off the headline, so here are the details. While it’s expected, it’s still worth exploring for how bad it is

  The results? On TikTok, about a third of the content we watched were ads — but it didn’t always feel that way.

  TikTok didn’t respond to a request for data on how frequently ads supposed are to on the bak site and how these ads are dispersed on the For You Page (FYP). However, a TikTok spokesperson told Insider ads supposed are to represent a small portion of the content people should see on their FYP.

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  Sebastian’s observations

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  • inspxtr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    yeah agreed with your sentiment. I think it’s good to have an intuition about something, but it’s much better when there’s data to back it up.

    Cuz then, they can do the same with others, say Youtube or other streaming services, and start to compare the numbers, like % of ads, what types of ads, how long are the ads relative to content, how many of these ads are political, how many of these ads may be harmful, …

    Having these numbers can be quite handy for other researchers and regulators to look into these issues more concretely, rather than just say, “as your brothers and sisters already know, tiktok serves ads”

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  • F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not much different than Facebook, instagram, tumblr. About every forty post was an advertisement. It’s why I left those.

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We’re you expecting a different outcome?

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• Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The only place were the ads are better content than the content

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• heygooberman@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One thousand TikToks? How do you retain your sanity from watching that many?

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  • Hillock@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s only 3-4 hours. 1,000 sounds a lot more but considering most are only 10-15 seconds, it’s not a lot. I think most of us would be fine doing that for our job. I certainly would watch 3-4 hours of TikTok and write down some statistics for getting paid.

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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We watched 1,000 TikToks in one sitting.

  “Doctor, when I bash my head against a brick wall, it hurts!”

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• ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You deserve worse for watching that many tik toks.

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do you not have anything better to do with your time?

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• Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  LOL, whay any sane human would do that?

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• beefpeach@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is how you get brain rot and die.

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