@noiob tell me why all the reports about any malware on android ever talk about how bank details get stolen

@EeveeEuphoria idk I run a current security patch, I don't really read those. I'm guessing stuff like autofill?

@EeveeEuphoria I'm not saying you shouldn't be worried I'm saying I'm not particularly worried

@noiob 2 seconds of googling tells me "Xenomorph" can get bank details from up to 300 apps

and just simple inference tells me they can steal this info by you just logging into your bank, which'd happen because... you log into your bank on your phone, then once it's in, the malware just snoops and steals the data

even on the latest security version, there's a lot you can do, especially when you have to use an app that does shit like patching another entire app

@EeveeEuphoria @noiob that's because it requests accessibility settings, which android warns you to not to do for apps you don't trust

@twi @noiob yeah like, that one app i'm still struggling to remember the name of does want access for it, does it not?

and more to the point, the original post was about how the majority of people don't use adblockers, do we want people installing this stuff and making the idea of changing apps normal, especially with shady APKs lol

@EeveeEuphoria @twi idk you can't really get a non-shady patched youtube app lol, I just don't wanna give them money

@noiob @twi then again you did suggest buying a chromecast, so

@EeveeEuphoria @twi yeah I suggested getting a really cheap piece of hardware that turns any tv into a thing that runs android apps

@twi @EeveeEuphoria which I don't accept for youtube revanced

@noiob @twi shit yeah that's the one that fit the bill of being made by some cryptobro asshole, isn't open source, and is just generally shady all around

@EeveeEuphoria @noiob revanced is open source???

@twi @noiob ??? since when?

@EeveeEuphoria @noiob ???????? since always ????? https://github.com/revanced

@EeveeEuphoria @noiob i think you're thinking of Vanced (dead), not Revanced

@twi @noiob well what the fuck why do they call this shit the same thing, ugh

@twi @noiob well yeah then, youtube vanced is the shady shit one made by cryptobros

youtube revanced being open source does make it look more legit, and trustworthy, but still the idea of patching an APK doesn't sound great to me

i don't think anything would go wrong with it, but idk, something about it has always seemed off to me

@twi @noiob regardless of all this the reason i got premium was to use it on switch and xbox

you can't patch the switch and xbox, and to bring this up again no i'm not using pihole, nor will i ever since i used it and didn't like it

...and yes i don't have a switch nor xbox anymore, but my parents are paying for it so why would i purposefully ask them to make things harder for me

@EeveeEuphoria @twi

you can't patch the switch and xbox

not with that attitude ^^

@noiob @twi you literally can't patch xbox apps no matter how hard you try

and i don't fancy using microsoft edge to watch youtube videos lol

@EeveeEuphoria @noiob (theorycrafting) one could make an xbox dev mode app that uses invidious apis or something similar to make their own app though

@twi @noiob that'd also require hacking up a UWP app and i'm not sure how feasible that is

...also not booting up dev mode to watch youtube, that'd be more inconvenient than edge lol

@twi @noiob i mean maybe in theory someone could upload it to the microsoft store in secret, it's how i got retroarch in retail mode

@EeveeEuphoria @noiob i mean i suppose if you have someone else paying for it do w/e lmao

@twi @noiob "always" doesn't mean march of last year, if the initial commit is anything to go by

@EeveeEuphoria I mean they get a token from the server that's only for the app