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Fake libretube website #4409
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I also think it has ads. I haven't seen them because I use AdBlock but they mentioned ads in the privacy policy |
There's also libretube.net, which is not affiliated with us either. |
Not sure if we can do anything to take the fake websites down, help is appreciated on that! |
I'm sure there's something, although personally I have no experience with that unfortunately. |
unfortunately we cant do anything except requesting them to stop impersonating,very popular projects like revanced and vanced have their websites impersonated,no one can do anything,only corporates can do that. |
I also don't think there is much we can do here. Except maybe adding a section to the readme with a warning. Something like this: "LibreTube doesn't have a website. Downloading the app from anywhere else than GitHub, F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid is highly discouraged due to the possibility of malware contamination." |
you can report them and then it's up to google etc. what happens next. |
I don't think there's a problem as long as the downloads are being pulled directly from github releases (unlike the modified android copies distributed on google play) . At least we know nothing malicious is being installed on the devices of the users. And after all, it's the end users' responsibility to do their researches before installing anything on their devices, we can't spoon-feed everyone and tell them what's good and what's bad |
Just ask these site operators to shut their site down,if answer comes negative or no response then ask them to use LT github asset files for downloading ,while doing this stick a eye catchy note on top of readme to to notify users about the list of these fake sites. |
maybe you could also show a prompt of the only official download locations (e.g. f-droid, github) when the user first opens the app but I don't know if that is too invasive. |
The code is open sourced mate, they can simply remove the prompt and publish the app 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. |
But it would inform users of LibreTube that there are clones of the app internet and that they have to make sure to only use official sources. I think that's actually not a bad idea. |
And sometimes, I'm not sure if the people that just steal the app without respecting the license, even have any idea how to code - otherwise they wouldn't need to use our code. |
make it hard to remove some how, like burried deep so that you'd only know how to remove it if you actually knew how to program. Many wouldn't even bother after than - maybe like a base-64 encoded string and a call to open a popup hidden somewhere - or even multiple calls so that if one doesn't trigger, another will. That will give them a headache for sure. |
How about having a sticky notification on first run? It could contain a disclaimer stating the only trustworthy sources where the APK may be downloaded. |
That may not be GPL friendly since that's a bit like obfuscated code. |
I would suggest a warning modal when the user first starts the app |
@MasterKia We now have our own domain: https://libretube.dev (alias to https://www.libretube.dev). Could you please unblock that specific domain and redirect all the requests to https://libretube.dev instead of https://libre-tube.github.io? Thank you! |
Fixed: uBlockOrigin/uAssets@7e6d812 |
very fast but how do you get a free domain? |
Thank you! |
It's not a free domain, it's paid with donations. |
I couldn't help notice that this website seems to be hosted by openprovider. You can see how to report abuse here. https://support.openprovider.eu/hc/en-us/articles/360001725008-Reporting-abuse I would strongly urge the owner of this repo to report the domain as it seems to be used for malware |
libretube.app libretubeapk.com libretube.net Refs: - https://matrix.rocks/notes/9kixzn48f5 - libre-tube/LibreTube#4409 - uBlockOrigin/uAssets@7e6d812
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This site is the first result on duckduckgo, and is clearly not an official site.
The actual download links appear to link to this repo's releases, but the whole site feels extremely unofficial and sketchy, and I haven't seen anything written about it here.
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