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Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good::The company is exploring an integrity API that could lock down WebViews with DRM

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No matter what, people will always find a way to mod the apps they really want to have free.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's definitely a danger if attestation becomes widespread enough that they can require it.

Not a danger of being unable to mod the apps, but they will be able to restrict access to their servers to the official unmodified app, when it's running on specific trusted operating systems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is already quite easy to do technologically, it's mostly a question of at what point Google feels it's worth doing, since once they start they have to commit to closing whatever exploits people find. And deal with the fallout of blocking a bunch of people on random old devices that weren't blocking ads anyway.

Of course people can still work around by running modified apps on rooted devices but it'll be enough to defeat a probably fairly large slice of users too lazy to jump through hoops - and as a bonus it won't just block Revanced (which is a fair bit of work to get running already) but also the other apps for media players like Smarttube, which were easier for people to set up.

And finally when all else fails they will spend the compute to embed the ads in the video stream, once they work out how to minimize the distribution costs for that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup. I remeber the girls at school listening to bootlegged YouTube videos from shitty rip off apps from the appstore lol. Before revanced, there was vanced, after revanced, a new Phoenix will emerge. The people will it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Electric boogaloo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Reeeeeeeeeeevanced

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remeber the girls at school listening to bootlegged YouTube videos from shitty rip off apps from the appstore

That could have been yesterday or like 15 years ago

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha fair enough. For what its worth they had iPhone 4's and Ipod touches. It was close to a decade ago then it was to yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Imagine going to school when people had access to smart phones. Fuck I feel sorry for you younglings

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be so sure. If you hang around for 10 years I would love to have a conversation after that length of time and see if you agree with yourself here