Lures for Money
Noshaba Nasir, Faqia Iqbal, Mahnoor Zaheer, Mariam Shahjahan, Mobin Javed · Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 2022
YouTube hosts a wide variety of user-generated videos accessible to a global population of users. The potential of videos to persuade users by engaging them with the experience of the content creator makes them an attractive medium for promoting various kinds of products and services, including apps and websites. The Youtubers promoting these products online may not necessarily be aware of the harms to which they might expose potential users. In fact, they may neither have the incentive nor the technical expertise to look into potential harms.