iOS -YouTube app showing augmented ads now (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by TheWorldRolledMe@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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 :)

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[-] rowdyrockets@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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.

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