Is YouTube ReVanced safe to use?

jherazob, 1 year ago

Rather than these links get the manager and patch the YT app directly, that will also give you a bunch of options of how you want it, you will likely need to downgrade the app to a version better suited for patching, usually not the latest, at this time i believe it's still 18.05.40. Hate linking to Reddit here but at this time this might be the best guide for the process, wish it wasn't there.

dessalines, 1 year ago

What benefits does it have over NewPipe / NewPipe + SponsorBlock?

BlinkerFluid, 1 year ago

It doesn't fuck up once a month.

jumanjimanju, 1 year ago

From my experience, none. I tried it and stuck with newpipe. I guess if you really want to use the actual youtube frontend, then theres that

tsugu, 1 year ago

I also stick with NewPipe, as it is fully libre. Vanced/ReVanced were just mods to the proprietary YouTube app.

TheAnonymouseJoker, 1 year ago

Only one, if you consider it as one. Many people do. YouTube Recommendation feed, which brings with itself YouTube culture and being able to keep up with the latest YouTube celebrity memes in your social circle.

I consider it a negative because it sucks away a lot of time and is meaningless junk.

jherazob, 1 year ago

Logging in to your account with all it implies: Being able to like and comment, history shared across devices, subscriptions (although there's ways to import your subscriptions into NewPipe but it's hacky), recommendations, etc. If you want this, NewPipe won't do it as it has no way to log in. Many people don't anyway, but a lot do.

ghostermonster, 10 months ago

For subscriptions we can use RSS reader, it’s also more convinient to have all other one-way feed based services in one place. Comments and likes are not doing anything on YouTube anyway.

mr_MADAFAKA, 1 year ago

And those download links are from who? Anyway here is github page from ReVanced team https://github.com/revanced. Download links from OP are kinda sus

TWeaK, 1 year ago

Yeah I agree, but the trouble is you can't just download from github. You have to also download YouTube from google (and a specific older version at that) and then use ReVanced to modify - and that's if it even works for you. This creates a barrier to entry that many people just won't bother with.

mr_MADAFAKA, 1 year ago

Agree, but just like OP said "there is a potential risk of downloading a malicious version of the app" how do i know if links for download are safe, i could just give you this link (https://revanced-apks.pages.dev/) from r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH and say they work for me best... I am just saying people need to be more careful what they are downloading and not trusting some random people from internet including ME

TWeaK, 1 year ago

Absolutely, you're not wrong. I was mainly commenting on the install process being a negative of ReVanced.

mr_MADAFAKA, 1 year ago

I am not quite sure, but i believe if they publish APKs they will probably get shut down by Google and this is reason why they choose this way of installing

salmawisoky, 9 months ago

@Drift Boss NewPipe won't do it as it has no way to log in. Many people don't anyway.

JoYo, 1 year ago

if it ever ends up on f-droid

BlinkerFluid, 1 year ago

...go on.

JoYo, 1 year ago

i might consider...

TWeaK, 1 year ago

It can't go on FDroid because it uses Google code. You have to download the official YouTube app and then use ReVanced to modify it.

JoYo, 1 year ago

ah, well newpipe works well enough

jumanjimanju, 1 year ago

Yeah revanced is nice. Its a bit more involved to use than vanced was but it does its job well

TWeaK, 1 year ago

Yes.