These are all good questions, and questions like this generally gets settled through court cases. 9 times out of 10 you can basically assume, " reasonability".

These are all good questions, and questions like this generally gets settled through court cases. 9 times out of 10 you can basically assume, " reasonability". Does viewing ads in TikTok give them money? I would expect not, because you're not getting the money. Posting ads on there certainly would count. Giving gifts to creators probably would also count, although I'm sure a court would consider that incredibly minor, it would probably never get enforced, and even if it did it would probably be some tiny paltry amount. The bank who lets that transaction happen however, might get in trouble. If you let yourself be tracked using a VPN...? I suspect the answer to that question is going to lie in why you're doing that. Inadvertently? Almost certainly not going to be an issue. Do you have some sort of ulterior motive? It's probably going to be a problem. After all, you're literally committing espionage for a foreign adversary of the United States in this case. Remember that law is backed by court cases, and courts tend to be pretty reasonable. These things aren't programmed, they're human