What can malware in an apk do?
SmartTube Compromised
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Re: SmartTube Compromised
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
YouTube accounts and Google accounts have been one in the same since 2009.
how does this matter?
You risk losing your entire Google account along with all documents, photos, mail, and whatever else you have there. Enough stories of this happening if you look around.
Re: SmartTube Compromised
#53Really hate this "something was found" announcements
Which channel distributed the compromised apk? What is the signature of the payload injected? What is the payload, what does it do?
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's more shocking to people how much YouTube Premium costs.
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.
$14 and I still have to run several plugins just to make the site actually usable. No thanks.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's more shocking to people how much YouTube Premium costs.
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.
For something that was previously free with only unintrusive ads, yes.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's more shocking to people how much YouTube Premium costs.
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.
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#57Earlier 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.
Not to mention included YouTube Music. It's one of the few subs I pay for, because I watch a _lot_ of YouTube on the TV. And also like to have it in the background for "Podcast" style videos where the video is really only an accompaniment.
That's actually worse. They used to have a separate YouTube subscription. I don't want (to pay for) YouTube Music, because I already have Apple Music and Tidal, which I prefer.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, and you choose to risk losing the most important platform to humanity next to Wikipedia. Youtube should be a public service.
YouTube wouldn't exist as a public service. there would be no incentive to make videos
Why wouldn't there be incentives? If you are thinking monetary then the existence of youtube disproves your statement.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not going to watch billions of Videos. Its not entirely ad free, just fewer ads, AFAIK sponsored segments remain so there are still ads, sometimes quite lengthy ones. $14/month is $168 an year, and if you subscribe to multiple other video services the annual total is going to be quite high.
SponsorBlock helps with them.
I do not use it because I do want to support the people I watch. I just skip manually if it is of no interest.
Re: SmartTube Compromised
#60This will inevitably be used as ammunition against sideloading, but it’s really a lesson in supply chain trust.
When we move away from walled gardens (which I support), the burden of verifying the "chain of custody" shifts to the user. Installing an APK that auto-updates with root/system privileges is essentially giving a single developer the keys to your living room.
We need better intermediate trust models—like reproducible builds signed by a quorum of maintainers—rather than just "trust this GitHub release."