This also happens to me, using the Smarttube flatpak, I think that it’s a “feature” from the youtube tv original app, and it bleeds into Smarttube because what it does is faking being the original youtube tv app with some extra modifications.
Edit, I am using VacuumTube from flatpak, not Smarttube, but it’s the same concept.
That’s a lot of information, and really scary. Not knowing that a company as big and invasive as Genetec existed and at the same time only knowing about them because of Flocks fuck ups… doesn’t really give me hope, most of the people won’t know about them and even if they do, Genetec can just lay low while the US people fight against Flock surveillance.
They are aware of it, that’s why they are busy spending it.