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They do heavy data collecting which is a PR hit if it's too obvious. Obfuscation could be a general policy driven by this.
by mach1ne 4y ago
They do heavy data collecting which is a PR hit if it's too obvious. Obfuscation could be a general policy driven by this.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoWouldn't you detect data collection by watching what gets sent, not by debugging the app?
- valleyer 4y agoWhat gets sent can be encrypted, and the cleartext version might only be accessible through debugging.
- mach1ne 4y agoThere was a Part 1 of this post I believe (it could have been by a different author). It revealed that TikTok sends fingerprinting data about your device during every get request, under an unseeming header, encrypted to look like a long random string.
- ayewo 4y agoYes, Part 1 [1] is by a different author and was linked to in the first sentence of TFA. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34109771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34109771
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- beepbooptheory 4y agoIs this not standard practice for sites/apps like these? Seems a little overboard, user agent fingerprinting is hardly a secret, and (unfortunately) not considered a dark pattern.