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I believe Google and Apple are to be fined if they don’t remove the app from their stores.

We don’t have the ability to nationally block the domains and IPs, so current users will still be able to access it. So you shouldn’t need a VPN.

Android users could side load the app if they want.

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SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
What is sideloading?

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- Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  On Android you can download apps (.APK files) from the web, and install them without any app store.
  
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  - SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Oh gotcha I’ve done that before just didn’t know the term. Thanks!
    
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- scala@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Downloading the APK.
  
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- jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Its a silly term to say installing from any app store that Google doesn’t control
  
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  - Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Not quite. You don’t need any app store at all.
    You literally download an APK file from a website or anywhere, then install it directly. Could even be a friend with a thumb drive. Doesn’t matter how you get it, it’s just a file.
    
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    jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah. Dont do that. Its how you install viruses.
    
    Install through another app store like fdroid. Its the secure way to get APKs
    
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lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

We don’t have the ability to nationally block the domains and IPs

I disagree. It may be able to circumvent it, but US ISPs could configure their DNS servers to not resolve the domains and their routers to drop packages from and to these IPs. It will affect everyone who uses their ISPs default config for DNS and not uses VPN/Tor, which is a lot of people.

The question is: Is there a legal procedure to do that? For malware they are sometimes doing things like that (seizing botnet control domains etc), but tiktok isn’t officially malware, AFAIK.

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- Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This isn’t North Korea.
  Even China and Russia can’t fully block things.
  Our networks aren’t nearly as controlled as theirs.
  
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