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Tech YouTuber upsets savvy audience with $50-a-year wallpaper app

It wants all the permissions, too.

Rob Beschizza
Sep 24, 2024
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YouTuber Marques Brownlee makes great videos about gadgets, but has reached that threshold of fame and success where the the Oglaf dwarves show up with their branding opportunities. How about a $50-a-year wallpaper app that gets all the permissions? Great idea. Alas, if there's a YouTube audience clued-in enough to say "absolutely not" …

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