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Hey boss: “40M users are running a cracked version of YouTube premium on mobile, what can we do ?”
by rvnx 7mo ago
Hey boss: “40M users are running a cracked version of YouTube premium on mobile, what can we do ?”
- sporp 7mo agoI pay for YouTube Premium and I have an alt app on my phone because the user experience is just better. You're supposed to have background play in the regular YouTube app, but videos regularly pause until you return to the yt app to reload. It all worked perfectly fine back on my iPod touch, pre-premium bs. Tech is regressing. I'm on a family plan (cheap) and I use it for the music player for the inevitable question of why I'm doing this.
- londons_explore 7mo agoExactly this. And that launch country list is most likely the countries where cracked YouTube Premium is most common. App piracy is huge by copying around modded APK's, and everyone's grandma is doing it.
- UncleMeat 7mo agoGoogle could already flag these apps as malware or whatever. What developer verification does is enable Google to detect polymorphic apps.
- einpoklum 7mo agoNewPipe is in no way cracked: https://newpipe.net/ https://newpipe.net/