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Because TikTok has so far kept its strongly algorithmically tailored content to retain users, instead of optimising for more ad minutes like YouTube or Facebook.

YouTube could be just as good, even without shorts, if it actually gave people what they want instead of what makes YT the absolute maximum amount of money over.



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