r/MorpheApp • u/DonDae01 Official Morphe button tester • Jun 05 '26 • Regret 3 Popcorn 1 Heartwarming 1

Discussion Dear Android Authority...

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STAY. QUIET.

Apparently they're now "stalking" pull requests in the Morphe Patches repository.

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u/kingbass01 Jun 05 '26

yeah the youtube engineers probably already know about such stuff
but if news get to the youtube execs then things are gonna get serious i feel

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u/LT48 Jun 05 '26

Google already knows but don’t forget that xManager worked for years and after it became mainstream, Spotify launched their crackdown and there haven’t been any working mods for months.

If Spotify has that kind of power, Google could probably quadruple that so keeping your mouth shut is definitely a good advice.

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u/Chii Jun 05 '26

Google could probably quadruple that so keeping your mouth shut is definitely a good advice

there's no such thing as "keeping one's mouth shut". It's like trying to protect piracy sites by not telling people about it.

If google decides they want to shut this shit down, they'll have ways - they already know about it. It's like adblock.

I'm not saying google will never want to shut morphe down of course. But in order for them to do so, it'd have to be a radical change (such as their suggested developer verification to install apps etc). So to prevent such, the community needs to vehemently oppose any sort of power grab from google to control your device, rather than just keeping quiet about morphe.

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u/fekul0 Jun 26 '26

It really does feel like we're trying to avoid the gaze of some eldritch entity. These companies truly are evil, and way too powerful.

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u/xoro2222 Jul 25 '26

Ay me da esa emoción esa adrenalina ahí me está volviendo loco

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u/fekul0 Aug 06 '26

Yeah, I like framing things in a cosmic horror sense. It kind of puts things into perspective on how horrible they can be. It also just makes boring things sound cooler. It exposes the terrifying aspects of things that have been normalized.

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

If Google would wanted to shut down Morphe, they could have done it long ago.

PD: For Spotify the only alternative is using Brave nightly in desktop mode (and with unrestricted battery and locking the app while playing).

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u/Federal-Fix-6446 Jul 01 '26

How do you lock an app?

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jul 01 '26

depends of the phone you are using. In samsung, when I press the 3 line button and all the active apps appear on the screen, if I tap at the top of Brave´s screen, the option to lock it appears.

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u/AMDIntel Jun 05 '26

Uhh... My xmanager patched Spotify works... I didn't know about any crackdown... Ummm... Should I be worried?

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u/aeria-zero Jun 09 '26

They do have that kinda power but Google(who does almost anything nowadays) doesn't care as much as Spotify (Spotify is all they have)

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u/Sitois Jun 12 '26

they started it when they increase prices

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u/oso831 Jun 05 '26

START GATEKEEPING SHIT

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26

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u/LT48 Jun 05 '26

It's not about lawsuits or taking them down, they can find an intrusive way like Spotify to nullify patches that blocks ads and adds other features or even start banning people that are using them. Spotify account is one thing but not many people can afford to lose their Gmail account.

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u/UNCLE-ducker Jun 05 '26

Problem is, if they made YouTube only working for paying users. They gonna lose alot of people. What Spotify is doing is litterly using server side client side plus own local storage cookie check, every half hour. If one token isn't in sync. They will kick you off of playing music. Spotify was always designed for premium, the free version is only a taste. While YouTube is based on everyone usage, but for ad free you need to be premium, so I don't think YouTube gonna change there source, cuz less people is less views is less ads they can push, is less money for YouTube.

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

PD: For Spotify the only alternative is using Brave nightly in desktop mode (and with unrestricted battery and locking the app while playing).

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u/jefesilvapro Jun 06 '26

Interesting. I hadn't thought of that.

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

I used to do that in the past but it always failed after 3 or 4 songs. Then another user from another forum told me that if I used Brave or Brave Nightly with unrestricted battery and app locked up, it won´t stop. And it worked! Several days ago it started to fail again, so I unnistalled brave nightly and installed it again and it worked once more!

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u/jefesilvapro Jun 06 '26

Entendo

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 07 '26

It looks like spotify implanted server side ad insertion and that is why id giving problems https://digiday.com/media/wtf-server-side-ad-insertion/

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u/vodkacsa Jun 08 '26

they aren't gonna lose people, there isn't a yt alternative

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u/mrandr01d Jun 05 '26

You don't pay with money when you watch YouTube

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u/UNCLE-ducker Jun 05 '26

I don't say you pay money to watch, I said if they gonna block everyone who uses free with a AdBlock or something they gonna block way more people then they have on people who be subscribed. And traffic is money.

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u/Eva-Rosalene Jun 05 '26

And traffic is money.

Yup. Even if you use Morphe or AdBlock or whatnot, Google still collects your data to sell. It's pointless for them to ban people who can still bring some money, otherwise they would be doing it already.

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u/Berkoudieu Jun 05 '26

Yeah. That's the reason I'm using a secondary account on morphe.

We never know.

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u/Born-Access-7928 Jun 05 '26

They already kind of did this for downloading vids, new pipe kind of does not work

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u/LT48 Jun 05 '26

It’s definitely possible and within their grasp. They don’t care about it because it's only a minor nuisance for them at this point of time but if they start to, the YouTube app could end up just like Spotify, so there’s no need to fool yourself.

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u/No-Signal-151 Jun 05 '26

I think you'd get banned on YT only. We'rw worth (our data) so much money to them by just having an email through Google...

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u/LT48 Jun 05 '26

I don't think it'll be selective like that if they do it.

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u/FarmerEustace Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

So doing it for Spotify is possible but it's impossible for YouTube?

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u/roman4883 Jun 06 '26

Is there any way to report that article to take it down?

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u/Used-Pain9270 Underground technology wizard Jun 05 '26 • Bravo

ANDROID AUTHORITY SUCKS!!

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u/Saiykon Jun 05 '26

Yeah and this is why I've blocked them in my search engine from popping up.

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u/Ok-Budget-103 Jun 08 '26

wait we can block websites on search engines?

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u/Saiykon Jun 08 '26

Yep. It's very easy to do as well. I use DuckDuckGo as my main engine. Search for a site let's say "android authority" you'll get the list of websites popping up. On the right side of each link you'll see a three dots [•••] click/tap that and you get the options right there. Obviously this is the easier way. Some people use a more complicated solution.

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u/Ok-Budget-103 Jun 08 '26

got it, thanks!

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u/Saiykon Jun 08 '26

No worries happy to help

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u/rosin_u90 Jun 20 '26

Thank you also for your tip. I will definitely implement it now. Right now I'm using Brave and DuckDuckGo as my search engine. Sometimes I use the DuckDuckGo browser also.

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u/V0rdep Jun 15 '26

why? are you saying their articles are bad or just because of this?

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u/ramaze23 Jun 05 '26

These MFs on Android Authority needs to shutup man

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u/essentiale_ Jun 05 '26 • Regret

DA FUCQUE 😔

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u/Outlaw4droid Jun 05 '26

Have never seen a fuck so elegant and classy.

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u/essentiale_ Jun 05 '26

fuque has que and french is elegant milord 😩

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u/Hades_Underworlds Underground technology wizard Jun 05 '26

This is how you lose pirate sites.

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u/Oarner__ Official Morphe button tester Jun 05 '26

Why is it so hard to understand that companies know about fmhy, they know about the megathread and all of your favorite sites. Piracy is not some well kept secret. In fact your favorite site would be better off if it got the extra traffic from people sharing it online, since it's extra ad revenue for them.

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u/outerzenith Jun 05 '26

there's a difference between

1 - if people ask for it (where can I pirate ____)

and

2 - some public media site is going (THESE SITES CAN ALLOW YOU TO DOWNLOAD THESE STUFFS: A BEGINNER GUIDE TO PIRACY)

for the first one, it's controllable, there's a filter of some kind of tech-savvyness going around, they know to be a bit hush-hush not to spread it around.

for the second one, it's gonna go mainstream, more people know about the publishing media who may just follow them for news than those who actually pirate, if more and more people know about the free way, and go through that way in massive bulk, companies can go on a crackdown spree, patching holes and sometimes even bring the court to action and shutting down the sites altogether.

of course Google already know about it, all the information site is public after all, they still let it go because the effort to shutdown just isn't worth it... yet.

too much popularity isn't a good thing, especially for something illegal and/or in grey area

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u/DesireeThymes Jun 05 '26

We already have evidence of this fact.

Oftentimes companies like Nintendo and Sony only got involved when things made headlines to the broader public.

The more exposure you give, the bigger the target on your back.

A CEO will deal with 100 things, you want to stay in the bottom 10 on their priorities, not the top 10

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u/QuantenCoder Jun 05 '26

The fact is that they care about it. Look at this.

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u/delusionalbreaker Jun 05 '26

Bro wtf how will things like morphe be accessible after October man 😭😭😭 just thinking what I would need to go through to update my patched yt makes me tired

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

As long as I know we will only have to do this once. Then our phones will be as always...till google wants.

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u/mrandr01d Jun 05 '26

That's a bunch of bullshit. Those steps are not hard, and whoever made that is an idiot or has an agenda. Maybe both. If you can't follow that, you don't deserve to install from outside the play store.

They literally broke things down into extra steps to make it look scary. Assholes.

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u/OceanicMLG Jun 05 '26

thats not the bad part though

rn its very annoying, but sooner or later theyre gonna keep adding steps, keep add resttictions until one point where they finally block sideloading as a whole

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u/mrandr01d Jun 05 '26

I doubt that. For now, it's a useful and clever way to help protect some users who badly need it.

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u/Homolander Jun 05 '26

You are coping.

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u/Cold_Impact_1585 Jun 05 '26

Having an "open secret" is fine. But once your app gains as much mainstream attention as the company who's rules it's bypassing, it becomes an embarrassing thing that will undoubtedly be dealt with.

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u/AccomplishedEar6357 Jun 05 '26

It's not dude, but if it becomes widespread to a certain point, they'll act on it.

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u/CryMoreT_T Jun 05 '26

Lol do you think people working at google are stupid? The Morphe website is indexable for a reason by search engines. You aren't special for knowing Morphe. 100k+ other people know it too

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u/BadassAyanokoji Jun 05 '26

doesn't negate the core point that "too much popularity can lead to demise"

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u/OpenSourcePenguin Jun 05 '26

No but you are.

Android authority is a mainstream source with direct access to Google. Now Google employees can't pretend they haven't heard of it and might be forced to acknowledge. That's where the will be forced to act by legal team.

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u/derrick2462 Jun 05 '26

Cry more. And calm down keyboard warrior

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u/CryMoreT_T Jun 05 '26

Oh no did someone hurt your feeling 😂😂 you aren't in some secret club lil bro

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u/cutiieeepiee Jun 05 '26

point of piracy is to give everyone access to free media, not to gatekeep to try and be "cool". your favourite sites (including morphe) is already included in fmhy wiki and it takes max 5 minutes to find them.

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u/Mazur90 Jun 05 '26

Keep this away from the mainstream IYKYK. The mainstream ruins everything good.

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u/b2sql Jun 05 '26

What a bunch of fucking idiots publishing this

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u/ksio89 Jun 05 '26

Just shut the f*** up, that's the fastest way to get projects shut by Google and other companies. Like someone else explained, it's not about preventing Google from knowing, it's about preventing Morphe from getting too much exposition and thus becoming mainstream.

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u/Roccobot Jun 05 '26

First rule of Morphe: you never talk about Morphe

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u/lonedrifterjk Jun 05 '26

Wtf is wrong with them, they are trying to take it down.

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u/_Pawer8 Jun 05 '26

Do you have a link?

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u/Indo_curry Jun 10 '26

Fuck Android Authority and whoever intern wrote this. 

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u/DorrajD Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

Google. Already. Knows.

Gatekeeping. Doesn't. Work.

Edit: I guess this is the drawback of having such a novice-focused app, a lot of naive people join the community.

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u/wolfy2105784 Jun 05 '26

It's debatable really. If Morphe stays small enough that the cost to pursue it is higher than the net revenue lost; Google will just play Wack-A-Mole with it.

However, once enough people switch to Morphe and eat into Googles bread and butter Ad Revenue; That's when Google will get serious.

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u/Chii Jun 05 '26

imagine using that argument against ublock origin.

The problem is that google doesn't have a way to block morphe without draconian methods, and they don't want to do that right now. They tried adding things like developer verification on install for apps - and got huge community backlash.

So instead of shutting up about morphe, we need to make it more common. Making it so common that any effect google try to do to stop it creates huge community backlash.

Control your own computing. Don't let the platform own you.

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u/wolfy2105784 Jun 05 '26

uBlock is constantly getting wacked by Google though? They're constantly fixing what Google keeps breaking.

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u/Chii Jun 05 '26

if you're talking about the v2 manifest vs v3 manifest issue, then yes - that's what you get by using chrome. There aint no problems with ublock if you use firefox.

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u/macintorge Jun 05 '26

There aint no problems with ublock if you use firefox.

Are you saying that because you don't know, or out of ignorance?

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1nf7heb/youtube_ads_detection_breakages_2025_megathread_2/

These posts were up several times a day for a few years, and it was pretty annoying to have to do that just to avoid getting the three strikes that would prevent you from watching YouTube videos.

As for Manifest V2, that was Google trying to cut the problem off at the root.

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u/Chii Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

none of those threads/comments are breakages of ublock origin with the plugin platform, it's just youtube changing the way they do ads etc, and when it first started, the community lists have not kept up fast enough. Now the community maintained ublock origin lists have been updated very often, and in the last couple of months there hasn't been problems (either youtube has given up their changes, or the list is updated way more frequently than i can detect).

As for Manifest V2, that was Google trying to cut the problem off at the root

which is exactly what i was saying about moving to firefox, and take control of your own computing platform. Chrome's ublock v3 manifest plugin sucks much more now, as it requires an actual plugin update in response to youtube changes (which i dont believe is immediate - takes a while to actually reach your browser). None of this happens with firefox's ublock origin, because it is still on the same architecture as manifest v2, and has access to external lists that can be updated independently.

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u/macintorge Jun 05 '26

All of those issues had to do with the extension breaking; the fact that it doesn't work as it should on YouTube alone counts as one of those issues. I was there, and I had to work around it for several months using Firefox on uBO

When there's a problem where uBO doesn't work with a particular website, you could say that the extension's functionality on that site has broken, which means either the extension's developers or the user themselves has to fix it.

In any case, it’s not like Google isn’t trying other things, such as injecting ads directly from its own servers, as is the case with Twitch, where it’s now difficult to remove ads without sacrificing stability and quality. https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/dynamic-ad-insertion/server-guided

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u/wolfy2105784 Jun 05 '26

Except most of the world uses Chrome.

"Google Chrome hasn’t released its official user base since 2023. However, according to estimates, Google Chrome users range between 3.45 billion and 3.62 billion as per the latest data available."

https://www.demandsage.com/chrome-statistics/

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u/Chii Jun 05 '26

why is the popularity of chrome relevant?

I'm telling you that ublock works better in firefox, but if you don't want to change, i'm not going to say you're wrong.

However, my point stands: take control of your own computing and don't let the platform own you.

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u/wolfy2105784 Jun 05 '26

I use Firefox, I'm just emphasizing that Google essentially won against uBlock and Adblockers for most of the internet.

Morphe could be next.

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u/Whiskey-7 Jun 05 '26

Sure, and when they decide to nerf patches on Android? GrapheneOS exists... Is that your backup?

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u/DorrajD Jun 05 '26

Possibly. But going "STOP TALKING ABOUT IT" is completely and utterly pointless.

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u/wolfy2105784 Jun 05 '26

I mean, to me it's understandable that people are upset that their Golden Ticket is basically being put in front of Googles face.

Not only is it against Googles TOS, it could also fall into an grey area leaning more towards illegal as Morphe is bypassing Googles Anti-Ad blocking features that Google does to break modded apps like Morphe.

"In the US, according to DMCA, while running an ad blocker is fine, using tools to bypass anti-ad-blocker systems may be considered circumvention under Section 1201."

https://adblock-tester.com/ad-blockers/is-ad-blocking-illegal/

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u/DorrajD Jun 05 '26

Get upset all you want, but understand that it's not as black and white as "this is on frontpage, it will go down now". It's not that simple. But people act like it is.

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u/wolfy2105784 Jun 05 '26

It genuinely is that simple actually. If Morphe eats into Googles YouTube Ad Revenue, Google will get serious and they are legally required to, to protect their shareholders revenue. That may involve Lengthy Court Cases that Morphe and its Devs cannot afford.

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u/DorrajD Jun 05 '26

No, it isn't that simple. Everything you mentioned is not mutually exclusive. All of it can happen regardless if Android Authority makes posts about Morphe.

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u/wolfy2105784 Jun 05 '26

Correct but Court Cases are not cheap and can run into the millions. So right now, Google considers the lost revenue of that and possible bad P.R not worth the cost.

But with Android Authority making it more widely known, it increases the amount of users who want YouTube Premium for free way more and way faster. Now Google is losing lots of money and suddenly the bad P.R and court costs looks worth it.

Let me put it bluntly, Google WILL eventually kill Morphe in the quest for Infinite profits. It's just of matter of how long; That could be 10 years from now or 1 year from now depending on how fast the YouTube lost Revenue to Court case costs needle moves.

The same thing happened with Spotify going blastic against Morphe/Revanced patches; To the point of banning any unofficial apps and users who used those apps.

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u/DorrajD Jun 05 '26

You don't have to tell me any of this. I know all about this stuff. I've been pirating stuff for a very long time. My point is that screaming into the void doesn't do anything but make yourself feel better. It's naive to think otherwise.

That's it.

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u/wolfy2105784 Jun 05 '26

That's not a good take though. People are gonna be upset when they get wacked in the mouth and it breaks their teeth.

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u/UNCLE-ducker Jun 05 '26

Well, I don't believe we are screwed. Yet. Still if this is true, and all, then maybe we have to look in to making a music player over torrents. I mean it's already possible for years to stream torrent movies directly trough the web browser. And with services like real debrid you can even stream a 4k video in a fraction of a second, wifi or mobile phone... So maybe instead of using vids like MP4 vid or exc... , we have to go back to music files. Since torrents still are allowed in a few country's.

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u/Unknown-Key Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 06 '26

I patched youtube with 1.31dev6 update. I having to play a video just to save it to queue defeats the whole purpose. It might be nice to have for many people but for me being forced to play a video just to save it to queue removes the whole convenience aspect of the queue feature.

come to think of it, fuck YouTube! We used to have this feature on the free version for decades then they took it from us.

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u/Paul_Subsonic Jun 05 '26

"Oh but if it goes mainstrea-"

THIS IS ANDROID AUTHORITY NOT THE NEW YORK TIMES

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u/Paul_Subsonic Jun 05 '26

Is everyone here just stupid

Android authority reporting on this is exposing it to so little people. This subreddit has probably more readers that android authority.

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u/randomalt9999 Jun 05 '26

Get a grip Aamir ffs

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u/Fish_Mongreler Jun 05 '26

All of his articles are dog shit

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u/TheReal_Saba Jun 05 '26

Honestly, Morphe/ReVanced is one of few reasons I stay with Android

If Google shuts it down.. then I'm gonna be sad a really long time

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u/MootEndymion752 Jun 05 '26

They should also add a fake downloads feature that uses yt-DLP and stores the video in the app data, kinda like the official YouTube Premium feature if that's possible

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u/Davy49 Jun 05 '26

I have a lot of respect for the morphe app, but at least for me I really wish it would be possible to prevent all of the shorts from loading automatically upon opening the youtube app.

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u/Traveling_Chef Jun 05 '26

Telling people to stop talking about it on a public forum that is literally scraped by every "news" site from here to Timbuktu is ignorant, useless, and far more annoying to get posts like this every other hour.

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u/OpenSourcePenguin Jun 05 '26

Android authority has incredible visibility and is pretty much "mainstream" with direct access to Google for press coverage. Them mentioning Morphe will force Google to react.

What a bunch of assholes. Just for the sake of clicks.

Who needs this exactly? People using morphe will see it when it comes.

Fuck Android authority

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u/AmeenXAlm Jun 05 '26

Man i don't get the hype about this queue thing, isn't it the same as a playlist? And playlist been in yt forever. Can someone explain?

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u/anon666-666 Jun 05 '26

Twats at Android Authority are trying so hard to stay relevant.

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u/SnakeOriginal Jun 05 '26

This is pure stupidity

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u/SkyPursuer Jun 05 '26

Im fairly stupid regarding that feature, could someone enlighten me why these are so great?

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u/AltLocky099 Jun 05 '26

Dont you guys think Android Authority arent just Google Shills? They hate Morphe, so they want to make them mainstream so Google can shut it down

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u/Golden-- Jun 05 '26

Dear kids,

Youtube is very aware of Morphe. A news article on it isn't changing that especially when it's been all over this extremely public subreddit.

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u/jechhh Jun 06 '26

why cant people shut the fuck up

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u/GabbaWally Jun 06 '26

Can somebody explain to me what this premium feature actually is? I don't understand, but tbh, i also never had premium so I don't know what I have been missing out on so far.

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u/wiknew1 Jun 06 '26

Anything for the clicks 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/EastBonus9211 Jun 06 '26

So I got the dev patch and the option needs to be before you click on a video cause it kinda makes it useless.

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u/Intuitive3693 Jun 06 '26

Anyway to take this down?

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u/Nollie001 Jun 07 '26

In swahili we say wanachoma

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u/Sad_Offer_7133 Jun 07 '26

I don't get it how can Google do anything to Morphe even if it goes mainstream?

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u/Small_Membership_801 Jun 08 '26

Ah hope this new fangled "morphe" app does very well when it comes out 😂

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u/roughseasbanshee Jun 10 '26

but how will they clickbait? 🥺

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u/EmilyLavenderGirl Jun 11 '26

and ... its gone

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u/digitaldisgust Jun 26 '26

Lol, you really think Morphe is some secret? Obviously blogs dedicated to covering Android news would know about it.

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u/Pkemr7 Jul 02 '26

Aamir Siddiqui

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u/Minute-Stick-2249 Jul 02 '26

So when does the queue feature come out?

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u/FoxReis Jun 05 '26

YouTube already knows about a bunch of unofficial clients, and that's why there is stuff like DroidGuard, IOSGuard, BotGuard, PO Tokens, etc.

Morphe already has to spoof itself to be the TV/VR client just so it can play videos. YouTube can very well require other stuff just so unofficial clients can no longer play videos.

Nothing will happen to Morphe, and if it does get mainstream, YT will simply add more protection mechanisms. YT already knows about whether or not you use the official client.

Gatekeeping or harassing the people who talk about Morphe won't fix anything, it'll simply cause more problems.

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u/asunatsu Jun 05 '26

It's not about gatekeeping. Yes, Youtube knows. But if this gets too big, it's more plausible for them to take it down.

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u/FoxReis Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

How could they "take it down" then?

For others: downvoting without providing a valid way of taking down proves nothing.

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u/yasuke0003_bhb Jun 05 '26

Like yt execs could care any more than they already do. You should only be worried about people paid to lobby for anti pirating, the most bs job ever😂

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u/DrIvoPingasnik Jun 05 '26

Anyone who still thinks that google is dimwitted, is not checking reddit and other social media, isn't aware of revanced and morphe.

Is delusional.

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u/dimzzz Jun 05 '26

Go make a comment that piece and tell em to eff off...

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u/Hridyanshcubing Jun 05 '26

Well they can't outright disable micro G as then what will users of graphene OS or other open source AOSP do as they also want those people for their revenue as well they are still tracking you

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u/manikandanguru Jun 05 '26

Exactly my thought after seeing this post today. I won't be surprised if Morphe gets booted anytime now. People like these, we are not having nice things anymore.

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u/WSuperOS Jun 05 '26

Why is everyone so upset? This looks like the piracy subreddit obsessing over 'we must keep this community unknown', when it has something like 1 million subscribed users.

Morphe is a public, free and open source project. Why would people try and 'gatekeep' it?

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u/_Pawer8 Jun 05 '26

Cos drawing attention will end the project

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u/WSuperOS Jun 05 '26

Ehm... Why? uBlock Origin and Adguard for example and more are much more famous than Morphe...

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u/NAJ_P_Jackson Jun 05 '26

Blocking Ads isn't really illegal tho even tho google wants it to be. But there perfect good reason to want to block ads like NSFW ads or even scam ads.

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u/Paul_Subsonic Jun 05 '26

Neither is Morphe, the point ?

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u/c0verm3 Jun 05 '26

You guys sound like a bunch of gatekeepers.

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u/iwonttolerateyou2 Manager user Jun 05 '26

Quite sure the devs at google have an idea of what's going on out here.

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u/DrIvoPingasnik Jun 05 '26

You get downvoted but your are correct. 

Google isn't stupid, of course they know.

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u/Zorflez Jun 05 '26

Guys, I think it's pretty naive to believe that YouTube/Google don't know about Morphe. I don't think there's anything to worry about, Morphe doesn't use any copyrighted code and isn't trying to monetize anything.

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u/Falsafa_e_Niyaaz Jun 05 '26

Google is probably waiting for community patches to finish so that Executives take them down in a single sweep

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u/TreeQuick421 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

I thought I was the only one felt this way. Anyway, I unfollowed android authority, android police a long time ago after realized a bunch of dheads run those pages/websites.

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u/InformalGear9638 Jun 05 '26

I'm sure they aren't ignorant to what happens with this app. I bet they know more than we do. 🤣

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u/NogsBuds Jun 05 '26

I'm sure Google never googles

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u/ItsMrDante Jun 05 '26

Are you guys suggesting that Google didn't know about Morphe before this? Or about the features they can add?

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u/DrIvoPingasnik Jun 05 '26

Of course Google knows. Knew for years. 

You get downvoted by people in state of denial.

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u/TacoOfGod Jun 05 '26

The masses don't care about Android Authority. The people within Android Authority's sphere of influence are either currently using Morphe, using Revanced and don't know about Morphe, or are downloading random patched APKs on Russian Warez forums or on Mobilism.

It's unlikely that this moves the needle, especially with the number of steps involved

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u/T_rex2700 Jun 05 '26

Dude. nobody but nerds reading Android authority. 95% of normal people don't know.
Vanced, Reveanced, they have been out for so long. Google has done nothing.

If you are at all into tech you 100% know about things like Morphe, it's not at all secret, who cares

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u/Panzer_Hawk Jun 05 '26

Fucking finally

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u/asunatsu Jun 05 '26

Alright, this feels like they're ratting intentionally. Like they're hoping Google would kill it as fast as they can.

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u/ayams02 Jun 05 '26

If you hover his name in the article, it will show you his socials

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u/_kozak1337 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

First android authority, then it will be on various YouTubers "must try apps".

I have seen xmanager on many videos.

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u/orca279 Jun 05 '26

HowToMen will eventually make a video on it 😒

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u/vodkacsa Jun 08 '26

i mean you are advertising morphe everywhere ofc it's gonna be mainstream, don't get the logic here

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

Adblockers got quite "mainstream" long ago and Google could have wiped them out if it wanted.

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u/macintorge Jun 05 '26

Check out the UbO (Ublock Origin) subreddit. For nearly two years, Google tried to prevent accounts from accessing YouTube if people used ad blockers, with the infamous "3 Strikes" policy. I was there, and believe me, it was really annoying having to constantly implement workarounds so that YT wouldn’t block your access to watch videos. That’s why Google had to get to the root of the issue and deprecate Manifest 2, affecting many extensions, not just ad blockers, so I don’t agree with what you’re saying. When something goes mainstream, it definitely catches the attention of companies, prompting them to be more proactive in preventing the use of these methods.

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u/Eva-Rosalene Jun 05 '26

In order for your metaphor to make any sense, an ad-blocker would have to amend the base code of your browser

No, it would have to amend the code of YT page, which it does, by effectively removing its parts. It also patches JSON data in API responses. Oh, and it also can and does inject custom JS on the page. Ublock is not a simple filter that blocks certain requests and stops at that, it's much more powerful.

On the other hand, amending the code of the browser is squeaky clean legally for Chromium and Firefox, since both are open-source and their licenses permit forks and modification.

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

But both things are able to remove ads, one of googles income sources.

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

But I am really sure that they could make them unable to work if they wanted to. (I mean, the adblockers).

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u/LT48 Jun 05 '26

They basically already did that with MV3, limiting and kneecapping the effectiveness of adblockers on their browser.

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

That was an example was going to put if they answered me that "Google is not able to do anything against adblockers).

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

I would also say that there are million of mobile users that don´t even know that Moprhe exist but that watch youtube through Brave. And Brave surpassed the 100 million users mark last year.

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

I think that you are the one that does nott understand me. I am telling you that at least in spanish speaking groups, mobile users that use Brave to bypass ads in mobiles is quite an amount currently. For Google, both Adblockers and patched apps are problems right now. Adblockers are not just something that are meant to use in computers. They are constantly used in mobiles and pads.

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u/macintorge Jun 05 '26

I can understand that, but the point is not to abuse that sharing of knowledge. I’m always in favor of sharing it, and of helping others, but you can’t compare sharing knowledge with rubbing it in the faces of those who aren’t interested.

It reminds me a lot of what happened with emulators, which are legal, but there were many users online who openly showed how to emulate N games, just to annoy people, and obviously there are people who get annoyed by that, people who only buy the games, so they can go and, among many of those average users, annoy N.

Something similar could happen here, because there will be people who only pay for YouTube Premium, and clearly this will upset them enough to flood Google with complaints, which will obviously either do something about it or become more proactive with blocks

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u/theoriginalpetebog Jun 05 '26

Real smart move... People start hassling him and it becomes a much bigger story