• @[email protected]
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    43 months ago

    You can’t open douyin (the Chinese Tiktok) with a non-Chinese SIM present. So implementing it on the software side would be trivial, if google was to enforce this change software-sided.

    The block is trivial to bypass though, all you need to do is use wifi while disabling the SIM slot in your phone settings. My wife is Chinese, and I had to figure that out for her.

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      33 months ago

      Any China market tablet can install douyin even without a SIM, most even come with it installed by default.

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      13 months ago

      Maybe that’s an Android thing?

      My wife uses douyin on an American SIM all the time. She had to get someone from the mainland to type a pin for her when she first installed it, but there wasn’t any hardware based attestation on iOS