Hi my brother wants to able to download YouTube videos on his smartphone and I was wondering if anyone on this forum has any experience with one or booth of these two apps?: YTD (YouTube downloader) & Tubemate
Now TYD is open source and there for ‘should’ be safe and then there’s Tubemate it’s freeware so it has ads and the little I read about it this app has “adult site” ads and as we all know the general rule-of-thumb about ‘free’ adult sites and there adds, so since booth apps are from safe and trustworthy sites they booth should be fairly safe especially YTD.
But the whole reason I’m asking about these two apps is to get your input, so what do you have to say?
I’ll appreciate almost any feedback.
Because Google has a policy against people uploading apps that let you download YouTube videos.
Just like how they ‘now’ have one against adblockers. >:(
I mean my brother wants to do this cause he has this live-wallpaper app called Video Live Wallpaper that lets you use just about any video as a live-wallpaper, so lets say he finds a slideshow video he likes and would like to use it as a LW.
Well that’s what my brother would like to do.
And Google has a policy against people uploading apps like this on “there” site but they have no ‘authority’ over other sites like Amazon.
Actually after giving more for thought into this it’s probably better that my brother doesn’t have access to an app like this because hes very OCD in-fact his downloads folder has over 9’000 images in it LOL and this is a very high end phone to (Razr Maxx), because he has so many files in one folder his phone is struggling so I can just imagine how he would abuse ‘TubeMate’ for example.
He would probably wreck his phone.
So thanks for trying to help but he’ll just use something else for his live wallpaper app instead.
Note: I removed the links to the apps I’m not sure if I might have inadvertently broke a rule if so my deepest apologies :-[
The YTD is the first tool I ever experienced *nux vunerabilities using. Iv heard of the other. To be honest, your about as safe downloading apps from NON-PLAY sites as the Play Store itself.
Many people are amazed at how few Android ‘exploits’ and ‘backdoors’ there are but when you lok at all the permissions an app wants access to change/modify/monitor it becomes clear. Why go to the trouble (and expense) of creating a new envirmental trojan/virus when the user will gladly hand ove their device through PERMISSIONS. And its not about a ‘flashlight’ app needs those permissions in case of an incoming phone call as the PHONE CALL portion of the phone is a completly7 ADMINSISTRATOR function and would superceed ANY USER based app commands/protocols.
In essence, today’s applications suffer from one of two problems… poor (or just plain lazy) development/programming OR striaght up fraud.
So decide how you will, as no Avast! member here can speak ill of the Play Store being Avast is a DL on the store due to contracting/branding requirements. They cant really even adivse on NON-STORE apps under those same agreements. Thank goodness I am not bound by those brnading requirements.
Iv used the YTD tool often as it is pretty reliable. But who REALLY makes it?
To close, again, its about as safe as any app out right now, its mainly the permissions one should be paying attention to.
But what do I know about security… Im just a Marine who had to work/script with security as a top priority every second of every day.
Thanks for sharing your personal experience with this app.
But I just tried it myself and I can seem to instill it I get an error message saying: there is a problem parsing the package :
I’m guessing it has something to do with the version of Android I’m using (Gingerbread) and my bro just upgraded to Jellybean.
Not to make this tech support for your application however if your phone is unloacked you may want to insure you are allowing the app to access all the features it needs to to DL from YT.
OFF HAND - Here are two links discussing how easy Android is becoming to exploit to bypass a lock screen:
These articles DO NOT endorse the exploits but simply presents awareness for security professionals.
Back to the topic; most exploits depend on other applications access to phone monitoring, network monitoring, ect. This is why, as of late, there has been more concern to apps needing permissions to parts of your phone that have NOPTHING to do with the appliactions MAIN DESIGN PURPOSE.
In essence, its about the apps permissions that maintain how “safe” the application may or may not be to have on your Android device.
Thanks for the input. But I just confirmed my hunch after trying YTD on my brothers Jelly Bean phone, though I’m still pretty concerned ‘if’ or “how” much he would abuse the app like he does when downloading images and document files. :-\ :
You may also want to go on the Adnroid forums (not Googles as they might lock the thread) and se if it is the Gingerbread clogging it up, or if other users aren’t having the same issue. This will help insure your ‘debugging’ was fruitful. I hope this all was helpful. Have a great day.
