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galkk·Nov 2, 2020

This is just some bullshit there. I'm not android dev by any means, but I went to "location tracking" part https://github.com/augustgl/tiktok_source/blob/master/df_min...) referenced in the first sentence and it just seem to use official Android api and nothing else: import android.location.Location; This doesn't deserve to be on frontpage.

In TikTok Source code published on GitHub

akshayshah·Nov 2, 2020

Edit: Yes, it's decompiled bytecode, not the original source. Here's an example: https://github.com/augustgl/tiktok_source/blob/master/df_min...

In TikTok Source code published on GitHub

jhondoe123·Nov 2, 2020Submission

TikTok Source code published on GitHub

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instance·Aug 1, 2020

There is ongoing research by different companies/people. For example, check out penetrum: https://penetrum.com/research Got it from this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news... It'd be awesome if the reverse engineered code was on Github or something. I found this repo but wasn't able to look deep into it yet, so take with a grain of salt: https://github.com/augustgl/tiktok_source

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