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> Integration with Shopee Affiliate

> Grab affiliate links and post along with the video to social media. Discover popular products to promote.

I don’t understand what this means. It sounds like advertising with extra steps.

And it seems like the user can repost videos? So you’re downloading videos, removing watermarks, and then reposting with your own ads? Surely I must be misunderstanding. Would welcome clarification.

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The actual use case without this service is that. User find tiktok video, download it on their machine. User then find affiliate link. Create a social media post with video as attachments and affiliate link as a comments on the post.

So this function will automate that and user just need to paste the video link and system will do the rest including post to their social media on behalf of them.

So to confirm, the purpose of this is to download somebody else’s videos, bypassing watermarks, for people to then reupload them with their own monetization?

That’s an… interesting product, from a copyright point of view.

I'd be bothered by that premise but that is basically what most content on TikTok is.

Perhaps if it was so prevalent that it obscured all new content people might wake up to how shitty of a thing it is. (They won't.)

Sickening.

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