{"id":14794,"date":"2025-01-16T20:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/if-tiktok-goes-dark-in-the-u-s-vpns-might-be-a-solution\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T21:18:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T20:18:27","slug":"if-tiktok-goes-dark-in-the-u-s-vpns-might-be-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/if-tiktok-goes-dark-in-the-u-s-vpns-might-be-a-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"If TikTok goes dark in the U.S., VPNs might be a solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re only a few days away from the eventual banning of TikTok in the United States. From January 19th, U.S. users won\u2019t be able to download the app from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Also, people who have the app won\u2019t be able to access the content. However, if TikTok go dark on U.S. soil, VPNs might see a spike in usage.<br \/>\nA VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a service that routes your internet traffic through a server in a different location. We all know the classic trick of using VPNs to watch region-locked shows on Netflix. However, they can be pretty handy when it comes to protecting your data. People encourage using VPNs when using public Wi-Fi so that hackers can\u2019t access their data. Also, if you don\u2019t want services accessing your location, you can use a VPN.<br \/>\nThese are rather useful and affordable tools, with several of them costing $10 or less each month. Some services to look into are Express VPN, Nord VPN, and Proton VPN.<br \/>\nIf TikTok goes dark in the States, then VPNs will be VERY popular<br \/>\nSince VPNs allow people to mask their locations, they can prove useful for disgruntled TikTok addicts. If you open the TikTok app after the ban, the app would have to peek at your IP address to see where you\u2019re connecting from. If it detects that you\u2019re in the U.S., then it won\u2019t function. However, a VPN will supply you a fresh IP address from another country. Ostensibly, if you open TikTok with an IP address from China, then it will allow you to use it.<br \/>\nWe don\u2019t know if it will work like that, however. So, if you\u2019re looking into getting a VPN specifically for this, there aren\u2019t any guarantees. Be sure to get it for the other benefits. At this point, we don\u2019t know how long this will go on for. If you\u2019re not happy about the decision to ban TikTok, then you\u2019ll need to look to the alternatives like YouTube Shorts or Instagram Reels.<br \/>\nThe post If TikTok goes dark in the U.S., VPNs might be a solution appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AH-TikTok-image-12.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re only a few days away from the eventual banning of TikTok in the United States. From January 19th, U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":14795,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14796,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14794\/revisions\/14796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}