The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/km14 on 2025-01-19 18:06:02.
Seemingly, no journalism has been published today about whether US TikTok data is available to access in other countries. It is.
However, probably in an effort to fully comply with the US law, VPNs aren't working (at least, PIA and Proton both haven't worked for me).
I bought a seedbox in the Netherlands for $5/month (can buy just one month) using this service:
https://ultra.cc/
I ran the IP it gave me through every free "IP reputation" service. Its a perfect Netherlands IP address, not recognized anywhere as a proxy or VPN, and the service is extremely fast (I'm getting functionally no slowdown from my normal service whatsoever, 300mbps+ down). TikTok.com is fully accessible.
I installed Wireguard in one click on the server, downloaded the config files, and set up the client on my computer:
https://docs.ultra.cc/books/wireguard-%28vpn%29/page/wireguard
The only thing is you can't log into an American TikTok account. But I downloaded my data as JSON, so I have access to links of all my data.
Have been using this method on accounts, since myfavTT doesn't work, since you can't log in to a US account:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1i3oacl/my_process_for_mass_downloading_my_tiktok/
This was all more straightforward than I expected. Maybe the data will go offline soon, maybe not, who knows.