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/

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?

How is this vs NewPipe?

It used to be just vanced, because it's advanced but without the ad. But that project died and became revanced.

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.

What do you mean by "more properly maintained"? What's wrong with Revanced?

There's an ongoing issue and some infighting between the original maintainer and the contributors.

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.

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.

Where can we learn more?

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

Thanks. Any idea if there’s an iOS version?

Honestly I just prefer PipePipe.

There is not

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

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.

Whatever works for you. Newpipe and its forks are a solid project - I used the SponsorBlock fork of Newpipe for a little while.

Yup. I don't see a reason this switch right now.

At least their GitHub looks okay.

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!