Is that block part on the inside made of wood?

The ad is coming from inside the file! Look at all the extended tags using a tag editor. I usually use puddletag

This is referencing Google Play Music from back before it was shutdown in favor of YouTube Music. In that case, this is from around 10 years ago give or take

I fear not even adb is enough. It used to expose backup/restore functionality which allowed for some neat tricks like transferring/modifying shared preferences. So of course now that's gone. Seems like it's only a matter of time before adb requires a host certificate issued by Google

I think "Homeland" had a plotline with online misinformation farms at some point. That's all I can think of

For anyone curious, the preview image contains this link

The trace seems to be part of the request. It's only using digits to encode; I wonder why not at least base64

I like to do a little karate chop

These look a lot like iOS status icons, but I'm not familiar enough to say for sure

I do lots of squats so that my butt looks nice

I miss the old split screen feature. It was far more useful compared to the new "app pairs" thing. Mostly happy (edit: that nothing has changed) otherwise

For real I was going to say this reads like a Google marketing AstroTurf. Just watched the linked MKBHD video and it's not unfair; definitely not "weird"