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Unofficial TikTok downloads surge in the US
Many people are turning to so-called "sideloading" because the app is unavailable on official stores.
Even so, Apple and Google are preventing new downloads of the app meaning people are increasingly turning to a technique called "sideloading" if they want to get it for the first time or reload it to a new device. People in the US are also turning to virtual private networks (VPNs), which allow users to pretend they are in a different country - so TikTok fans can make it appear they are in Canada, for example, where the ban does not apply. Another iPhone sideloading company called AppDB has had nearly 95,000 TikTok downloads and seen its membership double since the ban according to screen shots shared with the BBC.
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