Are American iPhone users going to rediscover web browsing? https://www.tiktok.com/explore
Are American Android users going to discover sideloading? https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-use-tiktok-if-its-banned-in-the-us
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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A "complete shutdown" as the article describes it makes it sound like neither of those two things will help.
Very Possibly No workaround
Clever
VPN?
VPNw
It's a little known FOSS project, it piggybacks on TOR network and several other VPNs. The "W" stands for wank, as unfortunately VPNw only allows porn through to the user's device, if a non-smut site is accessed VPNw injects millisecond flashes of tiddies n cacks full screen every 45 seconds. Highly recommended, can't ever be too safe out there on the digital seas....
Ok. Thx.
👍 any time bud
VPN
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Kind of funny that this kicks in the day before an inauguration.
Not funny, a deliberate decision by the legislature in order to safeguard it from whoever was going to win the election (since it was set before the election).
Conveniently just in time for Trump to blame it on the Democrats even though he started the process during his previous term.
It passed with bipartisan support
Can we ban nypost please?
There goes my plan to sell jailbroken iPhones to zoomers.
Users will also be given the option of downloading their data from the app, sources familiar with the plan told the outlet.
That’s nice of them. I bet Facebook and Twitter wouldn’t do that.
Pretty sure they're both required to do that by law. I've downloaded all my Facebook data a few times
True, but I doubt they’d put the effort into making it easy for someone to download it in the message.
I don't know about twitter, but its very easy to download all of your data from Facebook. I did it yesterday in preparation for closing my account. Account->Settings&Privacy->Your Information->Download Your Information.
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Maybe I should get on tiktok. A social media app with Americans sounds wonderful
without*?
Also I think this only affects one country in America?
Yes, my bad. Without.
Amazing the citizens there will allow this. Land of the free lol
What exactly does that mean? I dont use tiktok, but I imagine it will still work if I already have it installed? Or is this a geoip restriction that doesn't affect Tor users? Or is it just not in the app stores?
Since it's not active, it looks to just be geo based as changing my VPN location makes it work.... This was my first time visiting the website and it was showing someone opening an egg he boiled for 2 hours... 💀
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