"When I worked on Android security there was one project I wanted to sabotage."

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"Goodwill is incredibly hard to build up and very easy to destroy. This change tells developers that we do not support apps that are “finished” and never updated. It tells our users their apps they’re looking for may suddenly stop being available for them to install."

Correct on all counts. There is no goodwill. Tank is empty. May Google burn.

I wish a Googler would sabotage YouTube making it a premium feature to be able to listen to YouTube with the screen turned off on Android.

It's environmentally unfriendly, resulting in degraded lifetime of batteries and wasted electricity.

You won't be able to see the ads with screen turned off.

They can spam users with audio ads fine.

> You won't be able to skip the ads with screen turned off.

FTFY

Newpipe allows this (until Google decides to cut them off anyway)

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