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Permissions requested on Android: Camera, microphone, contacts, storage. Because YouTube has entirely ethical and noninvasive reasons for needing access to con
by larkeith 8y ago
Permissions requested on Android: Camera, microphone, contacts, storage.
Because YouTube has entirely ethical and noninvasive reasons for needing access to contact data and unprompted file storage.
- snaky 8y agoFor Android there is F-Droid. > Lightweight YouTube frontend that's supposed to be used without the proprietary YouTube-API or any of Google's (proprietary) play-services. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
- JetSpiegel 8y agoIt even allows to stream audio only while turning the screen off.
- thecatspaw 8y agoCan you record videos with the youtube app? that would explain Camera and microphone. Contacts is probably for sharing videos and storage might be cache?