I want to follow some people on tiktok, for the content they put out. I am, however, a somewhat privacy-minded person. Any suggestion on how to make TikTok less privacy-invasive? Some DNS app?
I am on Android, not rooted.
I want to follow some people on tiktok, for the content they put out. I am, however, a somewhat privacy-minded person. Any suggestion on how to make TikTok less privacy-invasive? Some DNS app?
I am on Android, not rooted.
Most of the comments seem to be missing the point. AFAIK the question is "how can I sandbox a malicious app?" which would be nice to know the answer to.
As far as sandboxing goes, there's always Island, Shelter, and Insular, which all leverage the work profile function in android to give you a privacy sandbox of sorts. Problem is, your phone still uses Google Play Services at the system level, so any tracking data being sent through it still gets where it's meant to go. That being said, leveraging the work profile gives you an extra VPN slot, which can be used with either an always-on VPN, or that slot can be filled by a firewall, something like RethinkDNS or Netguard. Invizible Pro is a good option too, it can route all traffic through TOR, has DNSCrypt built in, and has a firewall (though I've never had success with using it). One thing to consider is that Android has been caught sending tracking data around the VPN tunnel if I'm not mistaken.
As far as location spoofing, faking logs, etc., I'm pretty sure you'd have to be rooted to do that kind of stuff with any real efficacy.
The real answer is root + microG + AFWall + any other privacy controls you can get your hands on (I'm a huge fan of XPrivacyLua, personally) and THEN consider something like Shelter
The realer answer is don't use TikTok
Thanks for all those details! I'll be taking a look at a ton of those things, especially the rooted tools. I'd love to be able to feed Google Play services a bunch of garbage data on a burner account.