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Your Duolingo Is Talking to ByteDance: Cracking the Pangle SDK's Encryption

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    When you open Duolingo to practice Spanish, BeReal to share a photo, or Character.AI to chat with a bot, you probably don't expect your battery level, storage capacity, and internal IP address to be sent to ByteDance, the company behind TikTok. But that's exactly what's happening. And the encryption
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    • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
      2 hours

      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.socialEnglish
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        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

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