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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.