They don't exist anyway.
My ticktock app works the same here in Europe as it did in Thailand last years.
The only difference is: I surprisingly get German adevertizing while I never got any advertizing before.
No idea why people who never used ticktock hate it. It is a video platform. People post videos about themself.
What the fuck is wrong with that? Randomly sprinkling adverts are completely obviously adverts, you scroll over them. Just like on any other "web site".
My ticktock stuff are videos about me traveling in Thailand: if you do not explicitly follow ME, you never see them, unless: you follow one of my followers/friends and they "share"/"repost" it, and it pops up in your stream, or you explicitly SEARCH for me - or search for content like: "farang in a Thai temple, making stupid comments".