TikTok’s “For You” page is essentially the social media site’s home screen, with each user receiving personalized video recommendations on their page on an ongoing basis.
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But what if you don’t like the videos recommended to you by the all-knowing, all-seeing algorithm? The social media giant just rolled out a major change to its home screen, introducing user-generated moderation to solve that problem.
Here’s how it works. You can specify in the app which words or hashtags you don’t want to see in video recommendations. The service automatically filters all videos with these topics, which provides a significant increase in personalization.
TikTok gives a few examples of when this tool would be useful, such as when you’re finishing a DIY home renovation project and want to minimize related video recommendations. It should also be useful for limiting offensive hashtags.