Right as TikTok went down the traffic on the vpn went through the roof and now it’s overloaded. That’s fascinating. I can’t even use it now.
No, Proton VPN is not overloaded by TikTok. Just because TikTok in the US doesn’t work over Proton VPN does not mean that Proton VPN is overloaded.
A bit more about this. On mobile, VPN will likely not be effective on bypassing TikTok’s US block. This is because TikTok collects so much information about you, that they know exactly where you live. So changing your IP is not enough to trick TikTok about your account location, when compared to the huge pile of other data that they already have through the mobile app.
We have heard however, that VPN is working for TikTok on web/desktop.
Last thing to note. Yes, traffic is higher on Free servers, but free servers were always less quick. For best speeds, you need a paid account, and the TikTok ban is having no impact on performance.
I’m not sure if it affected paid. But I haven’t had any issues so far.
Paid user here all working normal this morning no issues with slow speeds.
Interesting. Annoying, but from an engineering stand point, would love to read more about this.
No performance issues on paid Italy servers (iOS)
Some states requiring age verification for porn and the U.S. banning TikTok. Great time to be invested in VPN’s.
If your Tik Tok account was set to the US region, it won’t work for you regardless of VPN. I’m living in Ecuador and my US account is inaccessible. I could create a new account though in the Ecuador region. I can see my videos and such from my old account as well.
Yea I’m on iOS, paid, and I can’t use it. VPN was working fine on my pc the past 3 hours but as soon as I tried checking tik tok before bed it just stopped working. Not in america but tik tok was already banned in my network prior.
Interesting as a vpn didn’t bypass the ban. They banned US accounts, not US ips
Wait VPN’s are actually working for TikTok?
Same. I have paid. iphone and ipad connect fine but no traffic routes. works on mac. their status page https://status.proton.me/ says everything is fine. i wonder if they even know it’s a problem.
People are so desperate to continue their addiction.
All for some garbage invasive app full of brain rot and cringe. People are crazy.
Ugh, I’ve been noticing servers are slow even when the load percentage is low and it’s been driving me nuts. I went back to my former, Mullvad, and my speeds in browsing returned greatly. 
Cant get it to work for tiktok I keep getting "
This site can’t be reached
www.tiktok.com’s server IP address could not be found."
let me know if anyone has a fix 
the location is determined from router not from the individual device so you get a router with a VPN I thinkl
I can’t even get past the subscription page with my free account. I don’t do TikTok, never have.
Never had issues myself on any of my systems with Proton during the time. Kinda crazy that people didn’t realize the US servers in general would be down though. The app literally pulls info from SIM cards, so… The only way I was able to access it with a VPN for the short time was via the website, not logged in, and ignoring the “open the app” messages
Just watch instagram reels and instead of giving your data to china give it to America!