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Aleksandar Stevanović

How to get around the US TikTok ban

A person holding a phone with the TikTok logo crossed out displayed on the screen, with a blurry image of the tiktok homepage in the background.

TikTok has been banned on US following the Supreme Court's ruling last week. However, if you really can't live without it, our testing shows that there's an quick an easy way of getting around the TikTok ban – by using one of the best VPNs.

The popular short-form video-sharing app, owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance, has been continuously scrutinized by US lawmakers who allege that the company could pass user data on to the Chinese Communist Party. ByteDance has denied these allegations, explaining that its US user data is stored in the US, with backups in Singapore. The main driving force behind this is national security concerns, as TikTok, and by extension, ByteDance has access to the data of 170 million American users.

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