This is bullshit. Malware scanners use badness enumeration. Instead of scanning for Macros, just dont allow Macros, thats it. And uploading everything you download to some Free Service will 100% be a good idea.
Fair point. As almost all YTers say, sponsored videos "help support the channel" - which I can understand that being a rather cringey thing to say. What does this mean for this channel? Sponsors help me continue to scale the quality of the videos (ie. motion graphics, video editors, etc) and investigate fun video ideas.
@@collinsinfosec I get it man, and I don’t think its cringe at all. For me it just feels like its every other video that is solely focused around a sponsorship. Some of the tools are pretty interesting but I would probably rather have more “this video is sponsored by nordvpn” or whatever, so you can focus more on making the video that you want/can without too much “ad-influence”. Thats just my opinion though.
@@collinsinfosec I love the content but I do think the AD part should come first, and beeing clear to the audience that this is a sponsored content as early as possible is a must.
Great points from everyone here. From here on out, I will disclose the video sponsorship at the beginning, as I do for some of my other videos. I will keep this in mind moving forward. As you said @canyonsand, "short mentionable adverts are less intrusive and a safer bet (at the expense of some profit)" - This is true and I agree. The sponsors I onboard for videos are companies or solutions I believe in. For example, NordVPN or any VPN solution, cryptocurrency platforms, brands like Temu, I do not advertise, even though they seem to be extremely lucrative brand deals. I can't push junk solutions, it's not who I am. For this video's sponsor, SquareX, I think it's a pretty cool idea for a preventative measure. It's free to use and download. Thanks for the feedback everyone, I will implement this moving forward 👍 As always, I want to stay true to being transparent and authentic.
