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How so? That would make it so that the cost per US user is negative since TikTok would not be getting revenue related to US users but would have hosting costs for them.

But if TikTok really is as useful to the Chinese government to be the threat that the politicians trying to ban it make it out to be, surely the Chinese government would be willing to eat those costs to keep it going here.




No app that would be banned from app stores is likely to be successful in the long term.

Without revenue in it, and influencers on it, only few would jump through the insane hoops to sideload an app nowadays.




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