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This week the TikTok ban / forced sale passed the US house of representatives, Apple agreed to web distribution, a.k.a. sideloading in the EU with many caveats and Samsung had a sales surprise for the S24 series.

Episode 189

This video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tfc-tiktok-is-being-tikblocked-and-tickstopped
Speedometer 3.0 benchmark: https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0/

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Writing & Research: Tristan Rayner
Music by Edemski: https://soundcloud.com/edemski

Stock assets: Getty Images, AP Archive

0:00 Intro
0:19 The Brief
2:49 TikTok ban/forced sale
4:55 Apple sideloading
6:04 Samsung S24 sales surprise