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Might be some google service detecting something’s off or maybe the patch is just outdated.

  • Rikj000
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    3 months ago

    Yes that is the actual site.

    LuckyPatcher has been around forever,
    and has a good reputation + community.

    Never seen anyone mention anything that it might contain malicious code.

    The developer receives revenue through donations and showing ads on the site.

    Sadly the project is not open source though.
    My guess would be to prevent the hacks / patches it uses,
    from being patched / made un-usable.

    To be 100% sure though,
    you’d have to de-compile the app,
    and reverse engineer the source code,
    which is a very tedious and time consuming task.

    • leanleft@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      i used luckypatcher a long time ago. it was cool how i could remove ads from certain apps.(leaves big ugly red X)