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  • There are multiple ways of doing this and I’m not sure which methods tik tok is using.

    • ip address there’s a group called IANA that issues blocks of IP addresses to ISPs and there a companies like Maxmind that package that info. apps can create rules block requests based on that info that block requests coming from a specific location or return an error to the user

    • removing from the app store Companies can ask app stores to no longer offer downloads in a specific region and as the app updates it will become more busted over time

    • user information Based info provided by the user directly during sign up or from the social login a user used to sign up with tik tok






  • tiny@midwest.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.worldFireWall as a Service?
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    2 months ago

    It’s possible it could be a local firewall that is reaching out to their cloud for lists of bad IP addresses or domains or a local firewall that is configured from a cloud interface. The other case is it could be web application firewall or WAF which where a company intercepts traffic, drops malicious requests and forwards it to your actual web server