> What's to do stop someone from just installing the APK?
The manual process of just installing the APK.
The servers would be banned but TikTok itself is complying and blocking Indian Ips
tiktok.com itself is banned. You will have to use a VPN as well to bypass it.
There is no airtight way to ban a domain. Not in the age of DoH and TLS1.3
yes there is. SNI is still plaintext.
ESNI is dead. ECH is taking its sweet time.
TikTok could implement ECH in a day. If they hosted it on a generic AWS IP, it would be effectively impossible to block.
Loaction information from sim card is checked after installing apk of TikTok. And if location found to be banned country like India , then installed app itself will not work.
Apps haven't had access to IMEI info for several years
The real question is who wants to use Tik Tok that badly and if it is even health to want to do so.
People did actually do this for a few months but ultimately the competitors because good enough that they just switched