TikTok is going ad-free in the UK — if you pay £3.99 a month for it

TikTok is launched an ad-free service is in the UK, but would you pay £3.99 for it?

TikTok is going ad-free. At a monthly fee, of course.

TikTok has launched TikTok Ad-Free in the UK, a £3.99 monthly subscription that removes ads from your feed and stops your data being used for advertising.

TikTok launches an ad-free subscription plan in the UK

Users who sign up for the plan won’t see ads on TikTok, and their data won’t be used for advertising purposes.

TikTok is letting UK users pay to remove ads
TikTok is letting UK users pay to remove ads

TikTok is preparing to roll out a paid, ad-free version of its app in the UK. The new subscription announced today will be available to users over 18 “over the coming months,” according to TikTok’s announcement and will cost £3.99 (about $5.40) per month. In exchange for that, TikTok will remove ads from the user’s […]

Thailand approves $29bn in projects, with TikTok’s ₿842bn data-centre expansion alone worth $25bn
Thailand approves $29bn in projects, with TikTok’s ₿842bn data-centre expansion alone worth $25bn

Bangkok’s Board of Investment cleared six major investments on Wednesday. Three of them are data centres. The headline is the TikTok number, but the larger story is what Thailand is becoming inside the regional AI infrastructure trade. Thailand’s Board…

TikTok’s new ‘Campus Hub’ features college group chats and feeds

The new hub features dedicated college group chats and personalized feeds designed to help students stay connected with their campus communities, even while they’re away for the summer.

It’s primetime for conspiracy theorist video creators
It’s primetime for conspiracy theorist video creators

In the days since this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner was cut short when shots were fired at the event, there has been a boom of conspiracy theory videos created by people who insist that the entire situation was a false flag operation. These kinds of theories are nothing new, but the way they’re spreading […]

TikTok is making Americans want Chinese EVs they cannot buy, and tariffs were not designed for this
TikTok is making Americans want Chinese EVs they cannot buy, and tariffs were not designed for this

The United States imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to keep them out of the American market. TikTok and YouTube are making that strategy irrelevant. A survey of 9,000 potential EV buyers by AlixPartners found that 58% had seen Chinese E…