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Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned
- rvz 6y agoTikTok is no different to any social media apps out there when it comes to tracking and telemetry. However, the protection mechanisms in their API is interesting if true. Perhaps they got Arxan Technologies to do the heavy-lifting for them to audit and obfuscate their private API just like how Snapchat and Niantic (Pokemon Go) did. This ultimately sounds like typical white-box cryptography again.
- danellis 6y ago> TikTok is no different to any social media apps out there when it comes to tracking and telemetry. Which claim are you disputing? That TikTok gathers all the data, or that the other apps mentioned (Facebook, Twitter etc) don't gather as much?
- ThePowerOfFuet 6y agoIn this case, BO has done nothing more than regurgitate yet another reddit post: https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news_but_tbh_if_you_have_tiktiok_just_get/fmuko1m/ https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...
- dang 6y agoDiscussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638129 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638129
- genidoi 6y agoRealistically, even if I tried to explain it in layman terms, none of those points would convince my girlfriend to stop using TikTok.
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- throwaway122378 6y agoUsers should make the Chinese President’ Winnie the Pooh meme go viral on Tik Tok. Let’s see how fast the Chinese government reveals itself