ProxiTok, watch TikTok without a TikTok account

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Thanks for a tip came from the forum we thought we'd write this article dedicated to ProxiTok, a free alternative Open source to view TikTok videos without having a TikTok account.

The reasons for not having a TikTok account are almost infinite, it is literally a nightmare when it comes to privacy and the protection of your data: according to a 2020 Proton report (Archive | Arweave) these are the data that come are numbers and the permissions that are requested by the official TikTok application to work are decidedly excessive.

Then there are the ethical implications of TikTok with increasingly frequent censorship ¹ to relations with the Chinese Communist Party ².

ProxiTok, watch TikTok without a TikTok account

Unfortunately however, as happens very often especially in social owners, videos are not easily accessible from the outside and to be able to view one it is often even necessary to have an active account. Of course, it wouldn't be a big deal except that some videos are uploaded exclusively to this platform.

So how can you see them without having to create an ad hoc TikTok account? He comes to our rescuefree alternative e Open source called ProxiTok.

ProxiTok is a front-end for TikTok as well as Invidious it is for YouTube and so as there are for many other services. It therefore allows you to view TikTok videos without going through TikTok. The videos come proxates and therefore your privacy is safe, in practice the requests are made by the ProxiTok servers and not by your IP so TikTok will not know that it is you who is viewing that video.

The links to the various servers to access ProxiTok

Given its nature as free software, anyone can open a server that hosts ProxiTok and in fact there are several that host their own version and you can find them all at this address: https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok/wiki/Public-instances. There are also some with an Onion address for those who use Tor: https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok/wiki/Public-instances#tor

The official server is this: proxitok.pabloferreiro.es and as you can see using ProxiTok is extremely easy. You can choose whether to search by TikTok URL, Username, Tag, Music ID or video ID. Just enter your search query and then press Search.

The service is working well for now although as you know TikTok could limit its functioning so take advantage of it while you are in good health!

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1. Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that don't please Beijing | Archive | Arweave[↩]
2. Does TikTok share data with the Chinese government? Archive | Arweave[↩]

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