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| VPN service has boomed after the US ban on TikTok |
With countries around the world blocking or threatening to restrict TikTok, interest in VPN services has grown.
With a VPN, users can access online services through an encrypted tunnel, thus bypassing blocked apps.
ExpressVPN Vice President Harold Lee claims to have more than 3,000 servers in 94 countries. "We are seeing more and more governments around the world trying to control the information that their citizens can access so that they can use VPNs. Many people around the world can access blocked websites and services," he said.
After the US government announced that it might block the popular TikTok app, weekly ExpressVPN traffic increased by 10% as VPN services share similar trends and growth in Japan and Australia. 19% and 41%. According to the government, it is possible after the ban on the Chinese app TikTok, the continuing percentage of traffic is%.
When India officially shut down TikTok, ExpressVPN's traffic increased by 22%, while Hong Kong TikTok voluntarily withdrew from the region after the passage of the National Security Act, while VPN service traffic increased by 10%.
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have long been a popular solution to avoiding internet restrictions (whether they censor content or block apps), but the government can make it difficult for regular users to access VPNs by removing VPNs from the Internet. Local app stores. Users have to register with an app store in a different region, which usually poses such obstacles as a local credit card. As in China, states can criminalize the use of VPNs, impose fines on users, and possibly imprison their service providers.
Depending on how application blocking is triggered in practice, VPNs may not be able to solve other issues.