I am seriously starting to question if YT have started selling packages where you can buy subscribers to your channel…
A few weeks ago I noted that I had been subscribed to three smaller channels of generic corporate slop videos, I unsubscribed naturally.
Today I was watching a video on my phone I suddenly noticed that as I was closing the video a pop up saying that I had subscribed to the channel, I was very confused as I was already subscribed to the channel I was watching, Hidden In Sweden (btw, the last video was very interesting), and I checked my subscriptions…
I had been subscribed to a random holiday home rental company in Spain’s channel…
Are there ads that immediately subscribe you to a channel? What is going on?
that’s even worse, there’s so many malware apps on the Play Store alone that Google blocked 1.43 million apps just from entering the store in 2022. and that’s just what they knew about and caught. one particular type of spyware has more downloads than there are people in the United States.
at this point it’s a tossup between who is screwing you over more, the corps or the malware vendors that use those corps as a platform to attack you.
I am on iOS, and I try to be careful about what apps I download, At this point I think it might be an Ad that I may had tapped which has some link that could automatically subscribe you to a channel.