How do people make patches for closed source software from outside its software company/devs? (lemm.ee)

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You see this with some apps (I think ReVanced is a popular example?) and games occasionally, and I've never been clear on how they do it.

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it's particularly easy with Java and C#, as they don't compile all the way to machine code, but rather just to an intermediate representation (byte code).

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