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		hiq on Jan 17, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might ... Isn't https://www.tiktok.com exactly this?

Zak on Jan 17, 2025 [–]

Sort of. In a mobile browser, it almost immediately tries to get me to download the app, which is the opposite of pushing the web version in a marketing sense. Pushing would be telling app users that the app will become unavailable soon and they should use TikTok on the web.

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