Newbie here, how can i tell if lucky patcher is safe? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've seen multiple people here talk about lucky patcher and wanted to try it out, found the official site though reddit (cos I've had google give me badware links for things like these before) and the site rang every alarm bell in my brain.
From the too-good-to-be-true premise to the red text before the download saying that the app is Perfectly Safe, scanned the apk with virustotal (not perfectly accurate i know) and it returned a bunch of flags.

So is luckypatchers.com the actual site?

Edit: got the apk from the direct download link in the subreddit's about page and ran it on waydroid, seemed legit but also very old and the custom patches would just make the app (YouTube in this case) close instantly.
Might be some google service detecting something's off or maybe the patch is just outdated.

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[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 15 points 8 months ago

You'd want to see the source code, to verify it does only what it claims.

That said, I used it maybe 10 years ago, on a firewalled/monitored device, and it didn't make any outbound connections back then, ever.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

And also compile it from that source code yourself, because it's difficult to validate that the APK you download didn't have malware added by the person compiling it.