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More context: It's a successor to Vanced, a patched Android YouTube client that, among other things, disabled ads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Vanced?

More context: It's a successor to Vanced, a patched Android YouTube client that, among other things, disabled ads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Vanced?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Vanced?wprov=sfla1 ReVanced apparently had patches for more apps, which seems to have contributed to the takedown. See also https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-discussion-revanced-the-successor-to-vanced.4502039/ https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-discussion-revanced-t..., and previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30801912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30801912. Why are these mod projects bothering to distribute on GitHub but then try to obfuscate what they do into Discords and online subculture hangouts?

lzaaz 4y ago
Popularity I assume - people will be less hesitant to download an apk file from github, even if being on github doesn't really make it trustable in practical terms.
- cuteboy19 4y ago
  Presumably there are a lot of these dark projects which aren't anywhere public. We just don't hear about them
  - lzaaz 4y ago
    If you spend enough time in /g/ you will hear of everything.
    - Scarlxd 4y ago
      What's /g/ anyway?
      - matheusmoreira 4y ago
        4chan's technology board.
    - honkler 4y ago
      hello /g/entleman
    - Cipater 4y ago
      Why is everyone so angry on there?
  - jotm 4y ago
    Well yes, they're called "private". Often either illegal, it offends some powerful people or the creator doesn't give a shit and may just post a link on a forum as a thanks. Respect to those who put it out in the open! A DMCA is nothing, but people have died and even went to prison for a cool gray area program.
    - cuteboy19 4y ago
      One of the reasons why the original vanced was taken down was because it was advertised way too frequently and publicly. These projects should always be disseminated by word of mouth (hn/reddit does not count)
      - deleted 4y ago
        [deleted]
jacooper 4y ago
They can use European hosts like Codeberg, yet they still use GitHub.
- capableweb 4y ago
  They really shouldn't though, it would be kind of mean to Codeberg to host potentially illegal software there. It's really not that complicated to get a domain and host your own instance of Gitea, and it would make it a lot more resilient to takedowns, if you have the right domain registrar and instance host.
  - matheusmoreira 4y ago
    Git hosting would be a great Tor hidden service. I wonder if git can push to onion addresses...
    - capableweb 4y ago
      Absolutely, you can use Tor over a local Socks5 proxy that the daemon exposes, so you can do pushes over SSH as normal. Works perfectly fine.
      - matheusmoreira 4y ago
        That's awesome. Would be cool if there was a hidden git service with monero payments for storage. I don't really know anything about the opsec necessary for such a thing.
        alwayslikethis 4y ago
        I feel like using git for a sensitive code distribution is a poor idea. Git exposes rather a lot of information about you, from basic ones like username to a history of commits (what if you accidentally committed something revealing PII?) It's much better to simply distribute code as a tar.gz archive or something.

lzaaz 4y ago

Popularity I assume - people will be less hesitant to download an apk file from github, even if being on github doesn't really make it trustable in practical terms.

cuteboy19 4y ago
Presumably there are a lot of these dark projects which aren't anywhere public. We just don't hear about them
- lzaaz 4y ago
  If you spend enough time in /g/ you will hear of everything.
  - Scarlxd 4y ago
    What's /g/ anyway?
    - matheusmoreira 4y ago
      4chan's technology board.
  - honkler 4y ago
    hello /g/entleman
  - Cipater 4y ago
    Why is everyone so angry on there?
- jotm 4y ago
  Well yes, they're called "private". Often either illegal, it offends some powerful people or the creator doesn't give a shit and may just post a link on a forum as a thanks. Respect to those who put it out in the open! A DMCA is nothing, but people have died and even went to prison for a cool gray area program.
  - cuteboy19 4y ago
    One of the reasons why the original vanced was taken down was because it was advertised way too frequently and publicly. These projects should always be disseminated by word of mouth (hn/reddit does not count)
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]

jacooper 4y ago

They can use European hosts like Codeberg, yet they still use GitHub.

capableweb 4y ago
They really shouldn't though, it would be kind of mean to Codeberg to host potentially illegal software there. It's really not that complicated to get a domain and host your own instance of Gitea, and it would make it a lot more resilient to takedowns, if you have the right domain registrar and instance host.
- matheusmoreira 4y ago
  Git hosting would be a great Tor hidden service. I wonder if git can push to onion addresses...
  - capableweb 4y ago
    Absolutely, you can use Tor over a local Socks5 proxy that the daemon exposes, so you can do pushes over SSH as normal. Works perfectly fine.
    - matheusmoreira 4y ago
      That's awesome. Would be cool if there was a hidden git service with monero payments for storage. I don't really know anything about the opsec necessary for such a thing.
      - alwayslikethis 4y ago
        I feel like using git for a sensitive code distribution is a poor idea. Git exposes rather a lot of information about you, from basic ones like username to a history of commits (what if you accidentally committed something revealing PII?) It's much better to simply distribute code as a tar.gz archive or something.