[APP][MOD][4.4+] Instagram without ads and annoyances
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Thanks! Now the question is, anyone willing to automate and build an apk for me and anyone else that may want it? Maybe neekless? If not, I might give it a shot over the weekend but I have very little experience doing this.
Am using this app for last 3 weeks and there is no unusual activity in my account !
Yes. When an issue like this that happens ONLY to you, it's definitely the app's problem and not because you have enemies that wanna hack you. /s
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Don't think I have the know how to do this sorry. All I'm doing is following the OP's instructions to add the patches. Never fiddled with the java myself.
if you are willing to install some software on your computer the whole process is really easy
All you need are java runtime, jdk, apktool, android build tool, and tool to sign your apk(i use one from shatter box)
once you have build one the later version are very easy and fast
here v128 one i build from apkmirror
I'm not a android developer so I just create a random signature.
Seems to be a .bin file rather than .apk. not sure if anyone else noticed but I also tried to rename it just in case but no go. Unless I'm an idiot, I think this has to be re-uploaded as the proper file type. Thanks for your work in making this a one click installer!
I tried again using chrome rather than duckduckgo and it downloaded fine. Thanks!
I successfully decompiled and compiled the apk, but I have no idea how to dign the apk. Can anyone hlp me how to do it?
Thank you for publishing mod Apk. ad is really unnecessary things when we browse social media specially instragram.Hope every one will be get best experience by using it.
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Alright, i managed to patch the last version for legacy arm nodpi devices in case someone needs it. So far it works with no issues on my phone, but feel free to give me any feedback:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/l3e70t6xanon13s/
I patched it following OP's instructions, and signed it using sign-apk from this thread https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2213985
Thanks.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/l3e70t6xanon13s/
I patched it following OP's instructions, and signed it using sign-apk from this thread https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2213985
Thanks.
What DPI did you use to make it?
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Tried to use apkeditor on android. I can build with only proxygen patch, but using hooks creates an error while building the apk
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108Hi all. It seems like there's a lot of people annoyed by ads on Instagram. I was, too, until I figured out a novel way to patch it.
Changes
- Removed ads in the feed.
- Removed ads in stories.
- Removed "who to follow" blocks in the feed.
- Removed stories in the feed (those between the posts, not those on top of course).
- Carousel posts always show the first media instead of randomly jumping to the second one.
- Analytics requests are blocked.
- Enabled "internal" settings, accessible by either long-pressing the home tab or in the settings menu. These allow doing a lot, so use with care. The most useful feature so far is the ability to manually override each of the gazillion server-side configuration values.
Without further ado, here's the link: Download.
How my patch works
Instagram, as, probably, all the other Facebook apps, uses Proxygen for its HTTP client. Since Proxygen is written in C++, it needs JNI bindings to be used in an Android app. This means that the Java classes that interface with the native code can't be obfuscated. So, instead of digging through piles of obfuscated code that gets reshuffled with each update, I did the most straightforward thing: I injected my code into Proxygen's Java part. I had to make minimal modifications to the bytecode in order to intercept the API responses and pass them through my code before the app gets any chance to process them.
To repeat the process yourself:
- Download any Instagram apk or pull one from your device.
- Run apktool d on it.
- Download View attachment 4752809 and unpack it. Place the two files into smail/com/facebook/proxygen in your disassembled Instagram folder, replacing the existing ones.
- Download View attachment 4842971, unpack it and place the folder into any of the smali folders; I did smali_classes3 because there was no room for method references in the first dex.
- Build the new apk with apktool b.
- Sign it.
- Install it.
- Enjoy!
Unlocking the developer settings is another thing entirely as it doesn't depend on the API. There's no getting around the obfuscated code. You need to find an enum class that has RELEASE, DEBUG, INHOUSE as its values. There are several methods that return boolean; you need to change the one that returns true to false (this determines whether this is a release build), and then another one to return true so that the build type returned ends up as INHOUSE. Decompiling it using jadx makes figuring this out a lot easier.
I'll probably automate the patching process at some point in the future.
Hope you enjoy!
13/10/2019: updated to v114 and updated hooks files.26V123 arm64 patched with no follower list crash.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=4349826312261680102
If you do a clean install, you will see sponsored posts in the home feed when you first log in. Just force stop the app and the sponsored posts should disappear.21V120 arm64 patched with no follower list crash.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=4349826312261642003
If you do a clean install, you will see sponsored posts in the home feed when you first log in. Just force stop the app and the sponsored posts should disappear.
I have also noticed sponsored posts appearing in the explore section. I'm not sure if OP's patches get rid of sponsored posts there, so just live with it.19
