[meestaahjoshee]

my main complaint is watching videos on desktop web or the mobile app - there's no way to control play/pause/scrubbing. you just have to sit through it and if you miss any of it, watch it again from the start.

same goes for tiktok i believe.

this isn't an issue with the mobile version of the website.

anyway, rant over - i hate mobile apps.

[pjc50]

I think this is a deliberate decision, although I'm not sure why.

You can download the videos if you're savvy enough to open the dev tools, delete the transparent div, and find the element with the video (which may not be a URL but one of those weird blob: ones). Simples.

[ObsoleteNerd]

Each time you re-start it counts as another "play" for their metrics. It's been common on various sites for a while now.