The original post: /r/vpn by /u/L00mis on 2025-01-19 18:11:39.

TLDR; I use DuckDuckGo and disabled the app links, use a VPN to Canada then use Tiktok in-browser while signed into my US Ph# based account. That’s it.

Steps:

You do not need to uninstall TikTok | You do need a VPN provider where you can select a non-US location

  1. Download DuckDuckGo browser
  2. In DuckDuckGo Settings > General – Disable the “Open Links in Associated Apps” slider (disabling this will stop sites from opining the app version on the phone and will continue to the mobile site.)
  3. Enable your VPN (or earlier, I don’t care)
    1. I use a VPN that is non-US based provider, you don’t have too but do research on providers vs others if you care about the data stewardship along the way.
  4. Change your location to outside the USA
    1. I have found that using Vancouver/Toronto/Ottawa severs to be filling my feed with very like content to my former (RIP) US feed
  5. Go to DuckDuckGo, search for TikTok or go right to their site (now from outside the USA and fully in-browser)
  6. Sign in with your TikTok account and Xi’s your Uncle folks.

Hope this helps someone, I’m not the right kinda IT to explain anything VPN. This was more “customer solutions” where I just wanted to get it done and saw the browsers as the puzzle piece to work in.

Happy Doom Scrolling!