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There 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
by mach1ne 4y ago
There 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.