Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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If there's no setting in the iOS Settings app to take away the camera permission (which isn't even given by default and the app has to ask for it), it can't access the camera (unless it exploits a potential vulnerability in iOS, which I highly doubt).
It probably used data from motion sensors and the reason you saw your room was because of the glossy display. Or you have allowed the YouTube app to access your camera.
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
You have to press the plus button in the tab bar for youtube to ask for permission of camera and microphone.
And after you got the popup, it is shown in iOS privacy settings.
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
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
Wtf. Newpipe for the win
(Sorry apple users)
Yatee on iOS
Waiting for phone manufacturers to integrate physical camera covers like on new laptops.
use uYouEnhanced (it’s iOS only and on github). gotta build it yourself with your own decrypted youtube IPA. haven’t seen an ad in years because of it. it also includes sponsorblock and free downloads
due to apple’s stupid side loading policies, you gotta sideload this through a service like AltStore or Sideloadly so you can actually launch the app. i personally recommend sideloadly because they allow 1 more app to be signed than altstore, and they let you enable file permissions for apps you download
Thank you! I'm going to check this out tonight
of course! i recommend downloading an older version of youtube by at least 2 builds (if the newest is 19.30, go for 19.28). i also recommend taking a while to go through all the settings. there are a ton of things you can tinker with to make youtube better
This is not how iPhone camera access works. The only way this would be possible would be for Google to be exploiting some permissions bug. Doing so would be cause for the developer account to be banned.
Makes sense. This is what happens when you use malware.
I bet you have given access before and accidentally touched the plus button in the tab bar at strange timing.
I hope this is the awakening you need to get rid of Apple devices, as well as all crappy spy devices, and use a privacy friendly setup such as GrapheneOS.