[HN Gopher] TikTok could bypass US blockade by making a PWA
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TikTok could bypass US blockade by making a PWA
Author : lknik
Score : 15 points
Date : 2025-01-17 20:57 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| lbhdc wrote:
| I think what this misses is that TikTok will lose the ability to
| pay content creators. It may also cause legal repercussions for
| advertisers who want to spend on the platform.
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| From TikToks perspective, they may want the hard decouple so
| their users pressure their representatives. If they make a pwa or
| some other means to subvert the ban available it could undermine
| peoples desire to act.
| hammock wrote:
| My experience with PWAs is... not great. What are the best and/or
| most popular PWAs?
| anothername12 wrote:
| They took my porn in Texas an now this wtf
| dlcarrier wrote:
| They already have a mobile web interface, that anyone can crate a
| shortcut to. It'll work fine as-is, with or without a 'PWA'
| buzzword.
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| If a government really wanted to block internet access to a
| service provider, they'd block access to their servers, on all
| ports. The workaround would be a VPN, not a web interface.
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| The US has this strange banning-but-not-really, because really
| banning it would be prohibited by the constitution's first
| amendment.
| exabrial wrote:
| It desperately forwards you to the app store right now.
| sschueller wrote:
| Funny is that even with the executive order to not enforce the
| law for now, it puts Apple and Google in legal limbo if they
| don't remove the app. They are the ones that will have to pay
| huge fines, not TikTok.
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