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Being in the Apple ecosystem for over a decade now as a former android person, is custom patches to proprietary app binaries to strip out ad calls actually a th
by SOLAR_FIELDS 2y ago
Being in the Apple ecosystem for over a decade now as a former android person, is custom patches to proprietary app binaries to strip out ad calls actually a thing? Kind of blew my mind that people will jump through hoops like this but maybe it’s actually not that hard to do because the tooling is quite good?
- lucumo 2y agoIt's definitely a few hoops, but not more than a few. The hardest part is that you have to download the right APK file from apkmirror[1] or the likes. It'll open the the right search for you though, but you still need to know a little bit about apk formats. You also can't just auto-update the app anymore. You have to manually update and patch again. Other than those two points, it's just pressing a few buttons. I only do it for YouTube, because the ad load on that app is insane. For others it's not really worth the trouble, I find. Does iOS have a better way for YT? [1] Ironically, apkmirror has an adblock-blocker, so if you use a DNS based adblock, you have to disable it.