6/9/2023 0 Comments Star maker app![]() More worrying still is the seeming lack of parental controls included in the app. Both the cartoonish interface of the app and the song choices, which are mostly Top 40 hits, seem designed to attract users in their teens and under. What makes this particularly disturbing is the app seems to be geared towards underage users. Regardless, inappropriate videos have still found their way online. ![]() If a user wishes to save the video of their performance, a prompt box appears informing users that saving will upload their performance clip to YouTube. When you save a video, by default the video is set as a ‘public’ video both on the Services and on YouTube,” the privacy terms read. “The video is accessible via the Services through a link on your Account profile to the applicable channel on YouTube. It’s detailed in the app’s privacy policy that the app “collect and store the audio and video recordings that you choose to make within ” whilst signed into your StarMaker account. This aspect of the StarMaker app is not clandestine. According to posts in a Reddit thread discussing the app, a video of an apparently underage girl singing in her underwear made it to YouTube but was later deleted. The practice has resulted in more than a few unfortunate, and in some cases possibly illegal, incidents. ![]() Though it makes no secret of the function, unbeknownst to some, StarMaker uploads videos of its users to an official YouTube channel. However, the app has proved particularly popular as a YouTube attraction. The app’s popularity has been growing rapidly, particularly thanks to its affiliation with reality singing contest The Voice and a recent competition that gave the winner a chance to sing with UK group Clean Bandit. ![]()
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