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Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good (www.androidpolice.com)
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Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good::The company is exploring an integrity API that could lock down WebViews with DRM

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

How does it work under the hood? I remember googling around and never found out

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    To play video, the YouTube app does API calls directly to the YouTube API instead of loading any web code, then gets a reference to the media to play back and plays it back in a native media playback SDK.

    Revanced does their stuff the way they do by manipulating the bytecode that the YouTube app consists of, to add/remove things.

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