Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware

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Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware
scientificamerican.com

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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For YouTube, I use ReVanced Extended, it has Sponsor Block, Return Dislikes Back and an Ad Block. (Btw it's a fork of a fork)

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

Did you trying using the default patches?

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.