[ikk157]

Great point.  It's a global Chinese phenomenon.


True.  However it looks like the apps will be banned through instructions to the ISPs and maybe even through Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store:

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/explai...d-6482150/

That confirms my side of the discussion I had with @sohamb03 on discord.

From the information you’ve provided above, I can see that the ban will work as follows:

ISPs will be forced to block the app’s api, and hence internet-dependent apps such as TikTok won’t be able to communicate to the api (as it’s blocked), hence it won’t work. But that’s insanely easy to bypass through a VPN.

Both the google and appstore won’t offer the apps to anyone in india. HOWEVER, with the appstore, apple will most likely simply remove the apps from the indian store. Which is also easy to bypass by using an account with the country set to anywhere else. This would work because apple doesn’t bother tracing your IP location... so if you let’s say have a US account but you’re living somewhere else, you’ll have full access to all US content from apple’s side without even needing to use a VPN. Which is the exact opposite to what services such as Netflix are doing.

Not sure how things will go from Google play’s side though as I don’t use android so I’m not familiar with how things work with it. But in honesty, you can just install the app apk on android if google play blocks it.