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Incase you were not aware, there is a new fork of Revanced which is more properly maintained. It's called Morphe. (morphe.software)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/android@lemmy.world
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[–] 29 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks. That was an interesting read. Sounds like a great project that keeps having some silly people running it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    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.

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