• Dearth@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Rumor has it that tiktok will be unplayable with accounts linked to an American SIM card

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      20 hours ago

      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

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      1 day ago

      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

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        1 day ago

        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.

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          Any China market tablet can install douyin even without a SIM, most even come with it installed by default.

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          3 hours ago

          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