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More likely people will just install/update tiktok outside of Google play and apple store.
Tiktok got banned in India some years ago and it doesn't work if you sideload, or even VPN somehow. But pretty much the next day instagram launched their reels things and people jumped ship without talking about tiktok anymore...
Rumor has it that tiktok will be unplayable with accounts linked to an American SIM card
Tiktok is going to be paradise without all the US problems in everybody else's internet. It's going to be the best social network ever
That is actually a really funny point I hadn't thought of.
Yeah. Think about it. If you're English speaker user, sooner or later you get bombarded qith content from the US and people's solutions for it are always the same : just don't use insert social media app that much until the elections are over. But the drama bever stops
That... would be interesting. I wonder how they would implement that, and what else they decide is worth that restriction. Curious to see it play out
Edit: helpful info from Toms Hardware
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/what-will-happen-if-tiktok-is-banned
You can't open douyin (the Chinese Tiktok) with a non-Chinese SIM present. So implementing it on the software side would be trivial, if google was to enforce this change software-sided.
The block is trivial to bypass though, all you need to do is use wifi while disabling the SIM slot in your phone settings. My wife is Chinese, and I had to figure that out for her.
Maybe that's an Android thing?
My wife uses douyin on an American SIM all the time. She had to get someone from the mainland to type a pin for her when she first installed it, but there wasn't any hardware based attestation on iOS
Possible, yep. We are using two phones anyway, one for all the Chinese crapware and one for the serious stuff, so it doesn't affect daily life. Still a major nuisance though having to revert to those steps.
Any China market tablet can install douyin even without a SIM, most even come with it installed by default.
The app will stop working in the US. Doesn’t matter where you get it from.
Isn't that what a VPN is for?
If someone is savvy enough to install from outside of the normal install mode especially on iOS, wouldn't that imply that they are at least aware of a VPN?
There are lots of good free vpns out now, so it's not unlikely. People that spend hours on it can follow a guide for 10 minutes. It will lower the amount of people on it for sure but anybody who wants to can bypass it easily. It will probably mean more for creators and stuff, and their us bank accounts maybe won't be able to accept money from tk if they're sanctioned.
I can’t imagine anyone using a VPN just for TikTok. Not to mention free vpns are garbage and don’t work well.