TikTok lays off all employees in India

Re:TikTok lays off all employees in India by magic_man on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:09PM (#34745879)

Why did they have employees there given they are banned there?

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Re:TikTok lays off all employees in India by atdrummond on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:15PM (#34745941)

They gave them work for their EMEA and Latin America teams after India banned the app. They were also clear they would likely downsize.

All in all, about as decent as one can expect a company to treat you.

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Re:TikTok lays off all employees in India by flangola7 on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:17PM (#34745972)

Banned how? What's to do stop someone from just installing the APK?

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Re:TikTok lays off all employees in India by metaphor on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:21PM (#34746036)

> What's to do stop someone from just installing the APK?

The manual process of just installing the APK.

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Re:TikTok lays off all employees in India by ActionHank on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:21PM (#34746023)

The real question is who wants to use Tik Tok that badly and if it is even health to want to do so.

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Re:TikTok lays off all employees in India by cuteboy19 on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:28PM (#34746125)

People did actually do this for a few months but ultimately the competitors because good enough that they just switched

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Re:TikTok lays off all employees in India by frontman1988 on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:20PM (#34746007)

tiktok.com itself is banned. You will have to use a VPN as well to bypass it.

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Re:TikTok lays off all employees in India by flangola7 on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:07PM (#34747886)

There is no airtight way to ban a domain. Not in the age of DoH and TLS1.3

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Re:TikTok lays off all employees in India by aaomidi on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:32PM (#34748082)

yes there is. SNI is still plaintext.

ESNI is dead. ECH is taking its sweet time.

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Re:TikTok lays off all employees in India by flangola7 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @10:54AM (#34753409)

TikTok could implement ECH in a day. If they hosted it on a generic AWS IP, it would be effectively impossible to block.

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Re:TikTok lays off all employees in India by cuteboy19 on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:27PM (#34746115)

The servers would be banned but TikTok itself is complying and blocking Indian Ips

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Re:TikTok lays off all employees in India by azurenumber on Friday February 10, 2023 @09:33PM (#34748990)

Loaction information from sim card is checked after installing apk of TikTok. And if location found to be banned country like India , then installed app itself will not work.

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Re:TikTok lays off all employees in India by flangola7 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @03:34AM (#34750635)

Apps haven't had access to IMEI info for several years

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