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An investigative report reveals that new spyware can slip in unseen through online ads—and there is currently no defense against it. So not only that online ads are intrusive and can infect devices through malware, they can also be used for spying.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, setting up revanced seems a little too much work to me. So I use newpipe which I find much easier to set up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you trying using the default patches?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fact is, I am lazy. Reading the long list of things to do to patch the app and to keep it updated put me off so I didn't try.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I read the instructions for patching the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I thought the patches list