President Joe Biden has just signed the so-called TikTok ban into law, meaning that the popular social media app’s parent company must now sell the app or face a ban across the US,
The controversial ban of the app was passed by Congress this week, sending the measure to Mr Biden’s desk, who signed the legislation into law on Wednesday.
Despite fears that the Chinese-owned app will suddenly vanish from users’ phones, that is far from the reality of what will likely happen.
When does the ban go into effect?
At the earliest, it would probably take a year before TikTok would be banned.
Under the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has nine months to sell the social media app, tacking on an additional three more if a sale is under way.
But if this doesn’t happen, TikTok will be banned from US app stores.
In reality, the app would be no longer accessible in the app stores in the US, meaning it would become more difficult to download the app or receive updates.
TikTok users could probably circumvent the app’s removal from US app stores and access the app through other means, like by using a virtual private network (VPN) or using a foreign SIM card.
“The TikTok bill relies heavily on the control that Apple and Google maintain over their smartphone platforms because the bill’s primary mechanism is to direct Apple and Google to stop allowing the TikTok app on their respective app stores,” Dean Ball, a research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, told The Associated Press.
Just wait for all the bait apps and fake blogs with tiktok APK download links. Who knows, maybe it'll filter out all the tech illiterate reactionaries. en On android it'll be easier to keep your access. On iOS it'll be almost impossible since sideloading apps is pretty hard if I recall. Tiktok should just put the most recent android apk right on their website.
Make the internet difficult to use again.
no I’m old and lazy now and I’m not going back to Gopher
Sideloading is a pain, but I've got this crazy cracked youtube app I use that's so much better than the standard one.
NewPipe? I use it and it rules, way better than the official app
Tubular (fork of new pipe with sponsorblock and optional dearrow support) is even better
It's actually uYouPlus! This is a niche complaint, but the only thing it's missing (unless I'm unaware how) is being able to queue the mp3 tracks you can download in it. It'll let you sort them in a few ways, but you can't queue, so listening in my car is all over the place. If that's possible in NewPipe, then I'll switch to that.
It would be extremely funny if the EU coincidentally passed the sideloading law that forces Apple to make it available, and they decide to make all iPhones worldwide to accept sideloading and ByteDance lets you download it from their website
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