Heads up; ads appear to be leaking into Smarttube. I just got a pop up ad (as in, an actual pop up). I’m on version 31.63.
Ad popped up in lower right hand corner while scrolling Recommended. Some kind of skin care thing.
I clicked disable - will see if that holds.
I expect this is fun and games on YTs end / will be patched out. But, if not, might be time to spin up Tube archivist.
The app itself! Which is why I posted; I’ve never seen it do that before.
I’m aware SmartTube has some issues with malicious code injection some time ago; I don’t think that’s what’s happening here per se. Much more likely that m.youtube.com (which I believe is what SmartTube uses?) has found a way to start passing on ads.
I wish I’d grabbed a photo of it; instead, sat straight up in bed, said “What the fuck” and spooked the dog
Submitted ticket.
How could that happen without anyone implementing that into the app? At least it sounds like that’s what you’re arguing.
Not sure. It’s my understanding that google has been playing whackamole with m.youtube.com for a while.
They’ve repeatedly made changes that break or affect unofficial clients. Maybe the next trick is to find a way to bypass standard adblockers.
Could just be me in a tin-foil hat moment but I wouldn’t put it past them.
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Interesting. I’ll keep an eye out for it.
Me too. Super frikken weird…but it does move my yl-dlp / Tube Archivist time-line up. It was always a matter of time; I’m surprised they’ve been able to play whack-a-mole for this long
Do you remember which video triggered the popup?
Ironically, a video on homelabs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtgCcMjtqF0