Currently, you are unable to view the APKMirror web page. Instead, you get the following message shown in the screenshot below.
Tiktok downloads are currently blocked in the United States due to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.
The link in this statement leads to the following page, containing the bill that was passed:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521
This sets a dangerous precedent going forward for the Android community which sideloads applications onto their phones, being that APKMirror is the largest mirror of APKs for Android phones. It’s also possible for them to add more apps to be included under this bill, and possible for another bill to be passed which may act as an even more broad blanket to target specific groups of people (e.g. LGBTQ+, people of color), messaging applications that are truly secure (e.g. Signal), and so on.
Then of course there a very real possibility of our president forcing the integration of software updates into both Android (and possibly even iOS smartphones) that can forcibly remove applications for the “sake of national security”.
Blocked APKMirror links:
Man… I miss the old internet where we just didn’t follow the rules.
Ad tech and surveillance capitalism keeps this spirt alive.
no! I didn’t mean it like that!
Wait, we were supposed to be following rules?
At least “rules of the Internet” and “netiquette”.
The old internet, where the worst crime you could do was hot-link an image, and the worst punishment there was was having it replaced with goatse
Goatse was always for amateurs.
Tubgirl was the go-to whenever I was sufficiently annoyed.
Apkmirror is Android Police; they were never going to do anything to flout a law.
It’s also why setting up servers outside of 5/9/14 eye countries is imperative.
Android Police; they were never going to do anything to flout a law.
Police that follow the law to the letter? Well that’s unexpected.
(Yes, I know they’re not actually police, and whatever, but it amused me.)
That’s a cloudflare page. I don’t think apkmirror is doing it.
Could just be apkmirror setting up the block themselves in their Cloudflare dash. Might be the easiest way for them to do a geofence type thing.
I thought it looked like CloudFlare. Does that mean the US government is leveraging Cloudflare in order to block whatever they choose, assuming it has that as its underlying architecture?
In that cloudflare is following the law, yes.
Or Cloudflare is on their knees drinking orange juice for a more favorable seat at the table. Iirc they’re responsible for ~20% of web traffic, so it’s certainly something to keep an eye on.
That’s nice, but can’t we block TikTok on all platforms, so we can get rid of it already?
While doing that, let’s block X and Meta as well.
And microwave the servers.
It’s only blocked in the US, I can access it from Canada.
This is so confusing, first trump seeks to ban tiktok, then he allows it, and now its banned again?
Trump can’t change the law, he can only pinky swear that he won’t enforce it.
Would you trust Trump’s promise to the tune of $5000/download fines?
Tik-Tok going down was a stunt, it wasn’t the law. The law blocks distribution of the app, APK mirror is actually following the law.
Edit: it’s also unavailable on the play store for anyone questioning this.
If you really wanted it from an official store you could just sideload huaweis appgallery I have it on my phone due to having one of their smartwatches.
Stores rubbish really but yeah I’m pretty sure it would be a great way to get TikTok.
I can have a quick check if I can reupload it to some sharing site and post the link?
