YakTrace reveals when multiple Yik Yak posts were made by the same anonymous account and organizes them into a local PDF dossier. Built on the sidechat.js API project.
YakTrace reveals when multiple Yik Yak posts were made by the same anonymous account and organizes them into a local PDF dossier. Built on the sidechat.js API project.
YakTrace (Yikstein files) is a local YikYak research tool for collecting a fixed historical feed window, observing how that window changes after a source-level hide action, and rendering the resulting observational differences as a PDF dossier that groups every authors posts from the selected timeframe together. which deanonymizes authorship for a given school on a mass scale. It is built as a complete,…
YikYak's FAQ says that a user's name, phone number, and email are not shown to other users and states, “Nobody on the app can track who you are.” YakTrace documents a narrower but still serious problem: if source-level hiding changes which posts an account can retrieve, posts that disappear together can be grouped as likely coming from the same anonymous account. In a small community, that grouping can make someone…
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i3t4an/yaktrace was first seen on GitHub · Rising today on Nov 8, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 3 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #28 of 30, reached on Nov 8, 06:30 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 8, 07:00 UTC.
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#28 on GitHub · Rising today, on Nov 8, 06:30 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 60 minutes.
It was first seen on Nov 8, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (3 checks) since.
Mostly JavaScript; it is licensed under MIT. It has 347 stars and 3 forks.