Watched Louis Rossman today, and he’s part of the team behind a new app for watching online video content - not just youtube, but nebula, peertube, twitch and more.
adblock already integrated, works amazingly with a quick test on my end - it’s an app in the Lemmy spirit
(it’s got a paid model similar to winrar, you don’t have to pay - but they do want you to - opensource and all)
Note to pirates: the app still asks you to pay.
Not hard to work around (just have to bypass these files) but the license does state that they can take down any forks for any reason or no reason at all, so I don’t expect an easy to use free fork to stay up unless they make enough money to sustain development.
Wdym by bypass and those files ? I am sorry, but do you mean u need to edit something, delete or overwrite ?
Edit the files, make sure they
return truewhenever there’s a payment check in the code, and recompile the app. Shouldn’t be too hard.To get around the Rossman license issue you can probably publish just a patch file with none of the original source code so people can build their own patched versions of the app.
They can get forks taken down from legit places like GitHub, but this is the piracy community, isn’t it?
Anyway, have you actually used the app? It’s fucking amazing, it works flawlessly in my experience. I played with it for an hour and immediately gave them ten bucks, it’s better than NewPipe, ReVanced, everything I’ve tried.
Smart pirates keep everything but the stolen stuff above board. Sonarr isn’t illegal, using Sonarr to download movies usually is. Same with yt-dlp. In this case, the piracy part that’s supposed to be above board is the code itself.
I did test the app, it felt close to the youtube app but it wasn’t as good in my opinion. It’s probably an excellent client for the built-in services it lists that I’ve never heard of, but I only have access to Youtube and Patreon and Patreon doesn’t work.
I do see a nice future for it in the piracy community nonetheless. It should be easy to add a Plex/Jellyfin plugin, maybe a Kemono plugin for Patreon, and probably a bunch of plugins for your average ad-infested streaming site.
there could be a patchset made with ReVanced-CLI. It’s an easy bypass if you know a bit of Java/Kotlin, even with release APKs
True, patching the app through revanced every update is kind of a pain though. Prepatched APKs seem to be a lot more popular for piracy.
You don’t need to bypass anything. You can just not pay and the app will continue functioning just fine.
It’s the WinRAR model.
The patching is meant to convey that message of never paying, by removing the option and prompts + nags to pay, as well as create the experience of an app that is entirely free without such nags. Such patches exist for WinRAR as well to enhance user experience.