TheWorldRolledMe

joined 3 months ago
[–] TheWorldRolledMe@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Can someone remind us what stage this is? Something like "if I did do it, they deserved it" I think

[–] TheWorldRolledMe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you. I signed in and was able to see the button.

I denied permissions for both the camera and notifications but now I can see the options to toggle them under settings. I will use the app for awhile and see if issues come up again

[–] TheWorldRolledMe@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'll take a look in the app again but wouldn't uninstalling it and downloading it again reset permissions?

I've reinstalled it but I don't see the button you mentioned, unless you were referring to the desktop/browser version? There are no settings about camera permissions in the app itself or in iOS settings

[–] TheWorldRolledMe@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

I agree with your logic but when I reinstalled the app to see if I did allow camera access, the only prompt that came up is to request permission to send notifications.

Then again, it was logged in with a Google account so maybe it has something to do with the account permissions? I'll be able to investigate that later tonight to be sure but even after logging out and a fresh download, it still prompted for only notifications.

Regarding the glossy screen, it was displaying from the rear facing camera. I apologize for not mentioning that in my post but I'll update it to reflect that.

Edit: typed front facing instead of rear facing

[–] TheWorldRolledMe@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! I'm going to check this out tonight

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by TheWorldRolledMe@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

I've not seen this before but it was strange.

An ad loaded at the end of a video, so I paused it. What caught my eye was the background was moving when I moved my phone, which turned out to be the room I was in. The ad was overlayed on whatever my camera was looking at, but the ad appeared stretched from a single point in the middle of the screen, which was even weirder.

Edit: The ad was using the rear camera, not the front facing one.

I've looked through my phones settings and there are no options to toggle YouTube's camera access either, so I feel like it's safe to say this is being forced on users (surprise /s).

Needless to say, that app is no longer on any of my devices :)