Google’s experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API could patch the YouTube Vanced loophole once and for all

Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good::The company is exploring an integrity API that could lock down WebViews with DRM

  • @papertowelsEnglish
    2•6 months ago

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

    • @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7•6 months 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.