revanced.app is the real one.
Comment on youtube on modern phones sucks
mojo@lemm.ee 2 years agoI searched for Revanced and the top 3 results were malware, with the 4th being the real website lol. Thank God for uBlock saving my ass.
Psythik@lemm.ee 2 years ago
bappity@lemmy.world 2 years ago
OBS was victim to this a while back. it was almost indistinguishable from the real sites so pretty dangerous
mojo@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Mostly a windows issue there though, Linux and OSX have app stores to install that. Revanced is able to, and just doesn’t for some reason. It’s a massive security issue for many reasons, and this is a prime example of it. Especially given the app needs a ton of access on your device to operate. It’s mind-blowing to me that people recommend this at all, and why there’s no repo for it.
Goose306@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Revanced can’t exist as a standalone app to be installed like from a store. Google would nuke it. It has to be a patcher. Original Vanced was a standalone app and that is what allowed Google to nuke it from orbit. It’s arguable that Google ignored Vanced until the developers got money grubby and tried making NFTs, but the method they used for takedown was DMCA since it was their app just modified.
This is the same thing as ROM hacks, randomizers, etc and why they include a place to upload your own copy of the ROM rather than providing their own. Reverse engineering and modifying are legal, distributing copyright source, binaries, or blobs without the rightsholder permissions is not.
They also do have a repo for it, as well as the offshoot apps like Revanced manager, other app patches, etc. The fact it’s not at the top of Google results is a Google-and-SEO problem, not a Revanced problem.
If you want a one and done app install then something like Newpipe is what you want, which is built completely on its own. Revanced is explicitly not that, it’s the stock app hacked up. IMHO, Revanced is a nicer experience, but they are two very different experiences and approaches.
stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 years ago
Yes, always search it on github and tell people to find it on github if you can’t provide a link for them.
mojo@lemm.ee 2 years ago
They should really just host their own fdroid repo with binaries of pre-patched apps at their default enabled patches.
stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 years ago
They do not distribute any binaries to avoid copyright issues I believe. There are some telegram channels doing what you described, but I wouldn’t trust it enough to use it.