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Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned (boredpanda.com)
55 points by SimplyUseless 2181 days ago
3 comments
ThePowerOfFuet 2181 days ago
In this case, BO has done nothing more than regurgitate yet another reddit post:

https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...

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dang 2181 days ago
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638129
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genidoi 2181 days ago
Realistically, 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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rvz 2181 days ago
TikTok 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.

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danellis 2181 days 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?

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