• WhatSay@slrpnk.net
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    20 hours ago

    That… would be interesting. I wonder how they would implement that, and what else they decide is worth that restriction. Curious to see it play out

    • viking@infosec.pub
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      18 hours 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.

      • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
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        17 hours ago

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