Because YouTube has entirely ethical and noninvasive reasons for needing access to contact data and unprompted file storage.
> Lightweight YouTube frontend that's supposed to be used without the proprietary YouTube-API or any of Google's (proprietary) play-services.
Contacts is probably for sharing videos and storage might be cache?
Don't reward their shitty dark patterns[0] by installing their app. They have a site that is perfectly amenable to being consumed in a web browser on your phone. They're _already done the work_ to make it work well on your phone, but then they kneecapped it and turned the hard work of all those engineers and designers into lead-gen for their app so they can get your location data.
m.yelp.com: This page will open in another application.
me: tHiS PAgE wiLl OPEn iN aNOtheR ApPliCaTIon.
[0] You can only see the first few pictures, you can only read the first fifty words of each review, and every attempt to go beyond that[1] is met with a redirect to the App Store app
[1] no, they don't make it clear that clicking that "read more" link is going to send you to another app.
we have PROTOCOL already. if i want it to open in yelp it should either start the link with yelp:// or food:// and my os should default to my default food app. if its https:// keep it in my damn browser. google should let me set link rewrite settings per site or type, if i say for example WANT https://youtube to be rewritten on the fly as youtube://filename