lbhdc14 hours ago
I think what this misses is that TikTok will lose the ability to pay content creators. It may also cause legal repercussions for advertisers who want to spend on the platform.
From TikToks perspective, they may want the hard decouple so their users pressure their representatives. If they make a pwa or some other means to subvert the ban available it could undermine peoples desire to act.
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sschueller13 hours ago
Funny is that even with the executive order to not enforce the law for now, it puts Apple and Google in legal limbo if they don't remove the app. They are the ones that will have to pay huge fines, not TikTok.
datavirtue11 hours ago
The executive branch whose first and only job during times of peace is to enforce the laws is now expected to not enforce the law? This whole fiasco is dumb.
hammock14 hours ago
My experience with PWAs is… not great. What are the best and/or most popular PWAs?
Qem11 hours ago
Not that popular yet, but the Newspeak programming language runs entirely as a PWA, up to the IDE. Makes it really easy to set up. See https://github.com/newspeaklanguage/newspeak and https://groups.google.com/g/newspeaklanguage/c/s7c74c4QVvM
Sateeshm6 hours ago
In India, most delivery apps have PWA variants which include tobacco products that aren't available in the mobile apps. These PWAs work fine and I don't see any difference in performance.
ycombinatrix12 hours ago
Youtube is probably one of the most popular
bob102910 hours ago
I think the Starbucks PWA is pretty good example from an implementation standpoint.
dzhiurgis4 hours ago
Facebook and Instagram are almost useable. Messenger.com is PITA.
X/twitter pretty ok.
adastra226 hours ago
Blockade? That’s quite some hyperbole. A blockade is an act of war.
n144q12 hours ago
Aren't CDNs also going to be liable if they serve TikTok content?
dlcarrier13 hours ago
They already have a mobile web interface, that anyone can crate a shortcut to. It'll work fine as-is, with or without a 'PWA' buzzword.
If a government really wanted to block internet access to a service provider, they'd block access to their servers, on all ports. The workaround would be a VPN, not a web interface.
The US has this strange banning-but-not-really, because really banning it would be prohibited by the constitution's first amendment.
metalcrow9 hours ago
How exactly would the do this block? At the ISP level? I don't _think_ the US Government has ever done that before, a block on that level would be pretty unprecedented and might be more then they are willing to do.
exabrial13 hours ago
It desperately forwards you to the app store right now.
dlcarrier12 hours ago
Given the choice, they'd much rather you use the version that has much better access to location data and notifications, but barring access to that, they'll likely turn off the nagging and let you use the web interface in peace.
methou7 hours ago
I'm seeing many sites sending my behavior data to analytics.tiktok, will this be a part of the us blockade?
gausswho12 hours ago
App stores being a useful tool of state control (vis a vis the open web) does make one wonder if it factors into the government pursuing them as an abuse of market competition.
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dmvjs10 hours ago
the API is more limited on the web vs native
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anothername1213 hours ago
They took my porn in Texas an now this wtf