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TikTok does a pretty good job with its ridiculous security ecosystem hyperfocused on prohibiting any third-party clients. APIs need to use actual headless brow

TikTok does a pretty good job with its ridiculous security ecosystem hyperfocused on prohibiting any third-party clients. APIs need to use actual headless browsers in order to generate the appropriate signature.[1] Maybe s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶4̶3̶B̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶g̶o̶ ̶t̶o̶w̶a̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶i̶m̶i̶l̶a̶r̶ ̶s̶y̶s̶t̶e̶m̶ the rise in valuation, and Elon's involvement, can bring in some more money for the company itself for these kinds of endeavors. https://github.com/davidteather/TikTok-Api https://github.com/davidteather/TikTok-Api

karatinversion 4y ago
The 43B goes to Twitter's shareholders in exchange for their shares (and financiers who arrange the deal), not Twitter itself.
- TobyTheDog123 4y ago
  Very true, that's my bad. Hopefully the rise in valuation, and Elon's involvement, can bring in some more money for the company itself for these kinds of endeavors.
- Sol- 4y ago
  On the contrary, Twitter is going to be saddled with some debt that will be used to finance the takeover. But perhaps this doesn't matter to Musk.
kmeisthax 4y ago
This makes automated posting difficult, but not sock-puppeting. When people say "bots", they probably don't mean automated posting, they mean creating lots of accounts to swarm other users with. You don't need much automation to do this; a device farm of old phones and some ability to remote-control each one would be enough to maintain hundreds to thousands of sock-puppets.
- andai 4y ago
  Interesting, I wonder if VMs would also work for this purpose?
  - golergka 4y ago
    $1 per hour manual labour would be cheaper more effective than updating scripts against a determined adversary.
  - djbusby 4y ago
    Android in a VM.
makeworld 4y ago
Notably yt-dlp is able to extract from TikTok well, without using a headless browser. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/yt_dlp/extractor/tiktok.py https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/yt_dlp/extracto...

karatinversion 4y ago

The 43B goes to Twitter's shareholders in exchange for their shares (and financiers who arrange the deal), not Twitter itself.

TobyTheDog123 4y ago
Very true, that's my bad. Hopefully the rise in valuation, and Elon's involvement, can bring in some more money for the company itself for these kinds of endeavors.
Sol- 4y ago
On the contrary, Twitter is going to be saddled with some debt that will be used to finance the takeover. But perhaps this doesn't matter to Musk.

kmeisthax 4y ago

This makes automated posting difficult, but not sock-puppeting. When people say "bots", they probably don't mean automated posting, they mean creating lots of accounts to swarm other users with. You don't need much automation to do this; a device farm of old phones and some ability to remote-control each one would be enough to maintain hundreds to thousands of sock-puppets.

andai 4y ago
Interesting, I wonder if VMs would also work for this purpose?
- golergka 4y ago
  $1 per hour manual labour would be cheaper more effective than updating scripts against a determined adversary.
- djbusby 4y ago
  Android in a VM.

makeworld 4y ago

Notably yt-dlp is able to extract from TikTok well, without using a headless browser. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/yt_dlp/extractor/tiktok.py https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/yt_dlp/extracto...