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If you must use it, put it in your android work profile using island or similar, and run the apk through revanced first. Christ it’s bad for you in every way though. Please don’t use it.
I don’t have to, fortunately. Just decided to check if it’s as bad as I thought it was (it’s way worse)
Is there any instance where using TikTok would be mandatory? I would hate that line of work, my gosh.
Social media/PR work I imagine, I used to work in media pre-tiktok and having a public account on every social media was mandatory. Can’t recommend jobs like that if I’m honest.
I can imagine, I would not want that job if I could choose. Luckily for me, I can.
There’s an app in your tracker
Duck Duck Go browser can set up a local VPN on your phone (doesn’t connect anywhere) that blocks the telemetry and tracking attempts before they go out.
In other news: 1 + 1 = 2.
In other news: 1 + 1 = 2.
This statement is inappropriate and offensive toward the glorious CCP
The CCP is inappropriate and offensive toward humanity.
How does these kind off trackers scanners work - if the thing that they are given as input is an apk?
Surely these APKs don’t want to broadcast publicly all their tracking partners, and would just bury tracking requests deep inside the code.Are tracking scanners really sophisticated disassemblers?
App manager in particular uses a list of known tracking activities/services/etc, as far as I understand: https://muntashir.dev/AppManager/en/#subsec:faq:how-trackers-libs-updated
If the service decides to encrypt the tracking data and send it to their own servers with their normal content before sending it on to the tracking servers, there’s no way to isolate it other than prevent it being collected in the first place. I believe Meta already does this to hide the vast amount of data they steal from your device with all their apps. It’s how they can hide the data they scrape via hacks that bypass regular sandboxing and permission restrictions.
I have no idea but they list which trackers are used specifically like firebase, analytics etc
They look for imported tracking SDKs, URLs, template code blocks, etc.
So if they encrypt it before transmission it gets through.
That was the big controversy about TikTok right from the beginning.
Meanwhile google: over 90000
