I think TikTok would just use it anyway even if they were denied a license (if they even bothered asking for one). They've never really cared about that kind of stuff.
Anyone who has ever worked in a major social media company knows that this is false - but as another person who has, I will chime in and say this is completely wrong, compliance (especially such obvious compliance) is taken seriously.
I worked at a company that caught a major Chinese Internet company (not ByteDance/TikTok, but one even larger) red-handed engaging in deliberate app install ad fraud (their app would send forged Android INSTALL_REFERRER intents), so it would not surprise me.
