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Walter van Holst

Am seeing ProtonVPN mentioned to circumvent certain regional bans on certain platforms. Do know that their CEO is aligned with the incoming US regime and that this may not work for platforms disliked by said incoming US regime. See archive.ph/McxeT

As far as VPNs go, I would go for MullvadVPN, but in general VPNs fundamentally are a band-aid with their own risks attached.

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Jesper Lund

@whvholst If "certain platforms" means TikTok, I am seeing posts mentioning that a VPN does not circumvent the blocking for US TikTok accounts (TikTok blocking the user access, not the ISPs which are not covered by the US law). This makes sense because US users get special treatment of having their personal data stored in the US (Oracle cloud), and the US law applies to hosting services as well as app stores.

Walter van Holst

@je5perl Yes, it was about Tiktok. So the recommendation for using VPNs is even more useless than I already thought.

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Jesper Lund

@whvholst a VPN would work for accessing TikTok videos in a web browser without logging in (depending on what precisely is blocked by TikTok and its US CDNs today).

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Cassandrich

@je5perl @whvholst It also works for making a new account. Maybe you can even import your exported data...? Probably not but you can manually refollow & rebuild.

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Russ Garrett

@whvholst @je5perl it's because TikTok requires a phone number to sign up, so they're apparently blocking all US phone numbers.

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