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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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