Fuck, I needed this when my Galaxy Tab kept crashing when trying to run ReVanced, but it's fine now that I can export Morphe patches from my GOS. Saved for future notice!
YouTube Revanced is a patched version of the YouTube APK, which disables a bunch of shit like ads and whatnot. Also ties into the SponsorBlock API, which is super nice.
It started as "YouTube Vanced", which was, as others said, "YouTube Advanced" minus the 'Ad'. Play on words. Haha. Looked and functioned like the original YouTube app, because it was. Just patched.
The original Vanced team did a stupid and launched an NFT, which ended up in them getting C&D'd by Google. There is some debate on this, but any idiot would know that google absolutely knew about Vanced for quite some time, but the team monetizing it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Anyway, Vanced was forked and became "ReVanced". They ended up building a whole patcher app and offered patches for other apps like Reddit is fun (RIP), TikTok, YouTube, and many more. To get rid of ads and the like.
Drama occurred within the Revanced team, so it was forked yet again into Morphe.
It's an Android app patcher that removes ads and adds some other quality of life patches. Primarily for YouTube but it supports several other apps as well.
On YouTube it also adds things like integrated SponsorBlock, extrapolating dislikes, actual resolution buttons, and the option to disable shorts.
Most of the world can't feasibly install non-Apple-approved apps on iOS without paying $100 a year so something like that would probably never catch on in iOS land
It's for modifying applications to remove or add some features. Like removing adds and suggested content or giving users access to internal storage of apps. All patches should be listed on their website if you are curious what it can do.
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CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 190d
drifty's f-droid repo also offers pre-patched binaries in case you don't want to patch it yourself
https://fdroid.drifty.win/repo/
Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 189d
Fuck, I needed this when my Galaxy Tab kept crashing when trying to run ReVanced, but it's fine now that I can export Morphe patches from my GOS. Saved for future notice!
Martyy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 183d
biscuit@lemdro.id · 19 pts · 190d
What do you mean by "more properly maintained"? What's wrong with Revanced?
alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 190d
There's an ongoing issue and some infighting between the original maintainer and the contributors.
extremeboredom@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 190d
Where can we learn more?
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org · 3 pts · 189d
Yup. I don't see a reason this switch right now.
At least their GitHub looks okay.
Kirk@startrek.website · 12 pts · 190d
How is this vs NewPipe?
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 29 pts · 190d
Vanced/Revanced/Morphe is a patched version of the actual YouTube APK.
NewPipe is a third party FOSS frontend for YouTube that parses the actual website.
stoly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d
That’s the second time in 5 minutes I’ve seen the word revanced and I never heard of it before. What’s going on?
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 190d
YouTube Revanced is a patched version of the YouTube APK, which disables a bunch of shit like ads and whatnot. Also ties into the SponsorBlock API, which is super nice.
It started as "YouTube Vanced", which was, as others said, "YouTube Advanced" minus the 'Ad'. Play on words. Haha. Looked and functioned like the original YouTube app, because it was. Just patched.
The original Vanced team did a stupid and launched an NFT, which ended up in them getting C&D'd by Google. There is some debate on this, but any idiot would know that google absolutely knew about Vanced for quite some time, but the team monetizing it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Anyway, Vanced was forked and became "ReVanced". They ended up building a whole patcher app and offered patches for other apps like Reddit is fun (RIP), TikTok, YouTube, and many more. To get rid of ads and the like.
Drama occurred within the Revanced team, so it was forked yet again into Morphe.
toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org · 3 pts · 190d
Honestly I just prefer PipePipe.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 189d
Whatever works for you. Newpipe and its forks are a solid project - I used the SponsorBlock fork of Newpipe for a little while.
stoly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d
Thanks. That was an interesting read. Sounds like a great project that keeps having some silly people running it.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 189d
Yeah, I don't really follow the drama anymore, I got enough in my own life as it is (two teenagers will do that).
Whenever I hear about drama over a popular project, I like to find out for myself what's actually going on and make my decisions accordingly.
Zangoose@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 190d
It's an Android app patcher that removes ads and adds some other quality of life patches. Primarily for YouTube but it supports several other apps as well.
On YouTube it also adds things like integrated SponsorBlock, extrapolating dislikes, actual resolution buttons, and the option to disable shorts.
stoly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
Thanks. Any idea if there’s an iOS version?
MetalSlugX@piefed.social · 6 pts · 190d
There is not
Zangoose@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
Most of the world can't feasibly install non-Apple-approved apps on iOS without paying $100 a year so something like that would probably never catch on in iOS land
wasu@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 190d
It's for modifying applications to remove or add some features. Like removing adds and suggested content or giving users access to internal storage of apps. All patches should be listed on their website if you are curious what it can do.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 190d
It used to be just vanced, because it's advanced but without the ad. But that project died and became revanced.