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I went to follow this on the SpaceX YouTube channel since it is usually closer to real time.

It seems someone hijacked and played a video of the previous launch. Just as we got to launch time it cut to a fake badly dubbed speech by Elon Musk going on about Bitcoin, with a handy QR code.

This was a bit confusing but since it was 10 minutes in advance I managed to switch to another channel.

Still amazing, even if the video glitched at the key capture point.

And an hour later the Starship itself re entered to soft salty sea landing.

I don’t know how many prototype runs they need to do, I’m guessing they could stuff a shed load of Starlinks into the next one.

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Sounds like you were on a scam, fake version of the channel.

You need to look closely at the channel name in a URL and not just the branding signals on the page itself (logos, "presentation name"), etc. What you'll find is that the on-page channel name can be made pretty much anything as well as logos, banner's etc. But when you look at a URL that leads to the channel page, it's not the same and it doesn't have the verification check.

There is a real SpaceX channel: https://www.youtube.com/spacex

Note that it's just "spacex" and does have the verification mark. Also, SpaceX doesn't stream anything there (anymore): it's all just promotional videos... some of them are cool, but that's all they are. Nothing real-time. SpaceX only streams on X now, so I'd recommend one of the third party Youtube channels like https://www.youtube.com/@NASASpaceflight (which isn't NASA) if you'd prefer to stick to Youtube for such things.

This was on the YouTube appleTV app

I don't have any Apple products, so I couldn't give you any advice here.

My experience is that, while YouTube has a lot of content creators that I very much enjoy... I enjoy YouTube stewardship of the platform... less so.

I have an admittedly old Chromecast Ultra and Pixel Pro 8 phone which I usually use to control it. As they continue to upgrade the app and the service, they steadily make it worse and worse. Damn thing is almost unusable.

In the end, I think they may well be poorly product managing themselves into a position where they could be vulnerable to a more able, savvy, and competent competitor.

All this is to say you're probably just out of luck on being able to see these sorts of scams if you aren't already hip to them existing.

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