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Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM

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412 points xfeeefeee | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 01:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.314s | source
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ronsor ◴[21 Apr 25 05:12 UTC] No.43748671[source]▶
There is no legitimate reason for a social media platform to employ this much obfuscation.
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miohtama ◴[21 Apr 25 06:08 UTC] No.43748881[source]▶
It's to keep bots away and not turn to be another Twitter.
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1. lazyeye ◴[21 Apr 25 19:01 UTC] No.43755283[source]▶
Because bots cant interact with web pages at the browser level like humans do...