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Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by larkeith on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:17AM (#18542898)
Permissions requested on Android: Camera, microphone, contacts, storage.

Because YouTube has entirely ethical and noninvasive reasons for needing access to contact data and unprompted file storage.

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Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by snaky on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:38AM (#18543118)
For Android there is F-Droid.

> Lightweight YouTube frontend that's supposed to be used without the proprietary YouTube-API or any of Google's (proprietary) play-services.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/

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Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by JetSpiegel on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:36PM (#18547059)
It even allows to stream audio only while turning the screen off.
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Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by thecatspaw on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:02PM (#18546693)
Can you record videos with the youtube app? that would explain Camera and microphone.

Contacts is probably for sharing videos and storage might be cache?

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