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Re: SmartTube Compromised

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Post by nickthegreek »

sfRattan wrote: post #70

Announcement from the dev, in the project GitHub and Patreon: Friends, it seems that my digital signature has been exposed. This signature protects the app from fake and malicious updates, so there is a risk that someone may try to release counterfeit versions under my name. To completely eliminate any threats, I’ve decided to stop using the current signature and switch to a new one. Because of this, the app’s identi…

from my understanding, https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases/download/late... links to 30.56, which the newest clean version. Old app stopped at 30.48.

I installed 30.56 from the git link on my Shield. It did not overwrite the old one, as it has the old signature. I manually uninstalled 30.48. I did not use the backup/restore option in either as I didnt want to dirty any data in the new app.

Re: SmartTube Compromised

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Post by sfRattan »

nickthegreek wrote: post #141
sfRattan wrote: post #70

Announcement from the dev, in the project GitHub and Patreon: Friends, it seems that my digital signature has been exposed. This signature protects the app from fake and malicious updates, so there is a risk that someone may try to release counterfeit versions under my name. To completely eliminate any threats, I’ve decided to stop using the current signature and switch to a new one. Because of this, the app’s identi…

from my understanding, https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases/download/late... links to 30.56, which the newest clean version. Old app stopped at 30.48. I installed 30.56 from the git link on my Shield. It did not overwrite the old one, as it has the old signature. I manually uninstalled 30.48. I did not use the backup/restore option in either as I didnt want to dirty any data in the new app.

For me, the link to just the releases returns an empty list at present:

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases/

Re: SmartTube Compromised

#143

Post by bl4kers »

nickthegreek wrote: post #141
sfRattan wrote: post #70

Announcement from the dev, in the project GitHub and Patreon: Friends, it seems that my digital signature has been exposed. This signature protects the app from fake and malicious updates, so there is a risk that someone may try to release counterfeit versions under my name. To completely eliminate any threats, I’ve decided to stop using the current signature and switch to a new one. Because of this, the app’s identi…

from my understanding, https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases/download/late... links to 30.56, which the newest clean version. Old app stopped at 30.48. I installed 30.56 from the git link on my Shield. It did not overwrite the old one, as it has the old signature. I manually uninstalled 30.48. I did not use the backup/restore option in either as I didnt want to dirty any data in the new app.

Backup/restore is just XML files that you can open and inspect

Re: SmartTube Compromised

#146

Post by mrguyorama »

StopDisinfo910 wrote: post #56
M4v3R wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is $14 dollars for ad-free, unlimited access to literally billions of videos really a steep price? Personally if I were to get rid of all but one of my media subscriptions I would stick with this one, since it's got everything - entertainment, education, inspiration, you name it.

That's a very generous characterization of what most YouTube content is. My experience is that you are basically paying to remove the official ads from your disguised ads. The various algorithm tweaks for engagement these past few years and the introduction of shorts have significantly degraded the content quality and many good channels have just thrown the towel.

Right, I want premium because it's a "fair" payment for the service I use and would help support the people who make good content, but the vast majority of those dollars go to the company who is solely at fault for encouraging and essentially requiring creators to use clickbait and fake thumbnails and put out slop every single day and never ever ever try doing something slightly different and consistently change things in ways that those creators do not want and hate. Every complaint you likely have about youtube content was forced by youtube for their own profitability. Don't like sponsorships? People mostly started seeking them out after Google cut ad payouts essentially in half with no warning. Don't like videos being way longer than they need to be? That's because youtube started paying out based on watch time instead of views and that encourages padding. Don't like censorship? It was Youtube's choice to shadowban/punish anyone who even said the word pandemic during a literal global pandemic that people probably wanted to talk about, even in passing. Buy into Youtube's new "channel member" feature in good faith? Well then Youtube changed it so that the videos that only members can watch are now shoved in front of everyone's eyeballs without your approval or desire or asking and it's really annoying to all your viewers. Don't like every video spending 30 seconds telling you to subscribe and "hit that like button" and then the fucking bell? That's because google decided that if your video didn't have a high enough click through rate, it wouldn't be shown to subscribers at all, and then introduced the bell for "subscribers but for real", and then even that hasn't really been honored. Youtube has for example suddenly decided that I should be shown low view russian language plagiarism of videos I like that have then been autodubbed back into english rather than the video from one of my subscriptions that was copied to make the russian video. How is that supposed to help anyone?

I will happily pay for youtube when they show that they want to encourage good content and help empower the people who make that good content, but Google doesn't want to do that because Mr Beast slop advertising to your kids is more profitable.

So I pay for Nebula instead.

Re: SmartTube Compromised

#147

Post by cyberax »

Groxx wrote: post #132
cyberax wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know a couple of other creators, and a YT Premium view for them is about 10x more lucrative than sponsorship+ads. It completely changes if we're talking about non-Premium views.

I suspect we're in different niches then or something. If ya don't mind sharing / have links handy, do you have any examples? I'm curious what kind of channel it works well for. I can try to hunt mine down, but most of the examples I've had were from a couple years ago, and YouTube's history is rather hard to search for stuff like that :| Not high odds of success.

These are niche Russian-language channels (@Varlamov, @Max_Katz). They disclosed their finances to drive up Patreon/Youtube subscriptions because Youtube stopped monetization from Russia.

I've been trying to find public numbers for English-language channels, but wow. So much slop.

Re: SmartTube Compromised

#148

Post by ewoodrich »

catlikesshrimp wrote: post #102

>>"It is likely the presence of this malware that caused Google and Amazon to forcibly uninstall SmartTube on some devices, ... " Where can I read more about *unrequested uninstalls*? Google search only shows results about how impossible it is to remove phone default apps.

That's refering to Play Protect (virus scan-ish thing on Google branded Android) and whatever Amazon's equivalent is, not an app requested force uninstall of some kind.

Re: SmartTube Compromised

#149

Post by fragmede »

bigyabai wrote: post #117
M4v3R wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is $14 dollars for ad-free, unlimited access to literally billions of videos really a steep price? Personally if I were to get rid of all but one of my media subscriptions I would stick with this one, since it's got everything - entertainment, education, inspiration, you name it.

Thanks for paying $14/month to support my ad-free yt-dlp archive, shmuck.

Usually people who are a leech, a drain on society don't go around bragging about it, but you do you.
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