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Your Duolingo Is Talking to ByteDance: Cracking the Pangle SDK's Encryption (www.buchodi.com)
submitted 4 hours ago by lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

Good thing I use pirated copies that give me paid features and remove these SDKs

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 14 points 3 hours ago

part 2: https://www.buchodi.com/your-duolingo-is-still-talking-to-bytedance-how-pangle-fingerprints-you-across-apps-after-you-said-no/

[–] XLE@piefed.social 10 points 4 hours ago

ByteDance applies real cryptographic protection to the data valuable to their business: ad impressions, click attribution, revenue tracking. But the device fingerprints they harvest from users? Those get the key-taped-to-the-doorframe treatment.

Frankly I want the opportunity to peer into everything, or at least prevent all of it