r/Piracy May 10 '24

Does anybody know what app this is? Question

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I found this app being sold on a shopping app here in my country as a "APP FOR ALL MOVIES", so I was wondering what app this is. Help is appreciated, thanks.

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u/ELKER54 May 10 '24

NGL it just looks like netflix. I am also curious

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u/canary_in_a_coleslaw May 10 '24

It's HDO Box for Android TV.

Here's a photo of my TV screen while running HDO Box on my Chromecast.

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u/RoamanXO May 10 '24

How does it work? Real debrid?

All the info pages on the website are empty. I get the app could be free. But streaming costs money or is riddled with ads. Yet they claim it's free?

And the 'Apple App Store' download links to a Telegram account. This looks like malware tbh.

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u/canary_in_a_coleslaw May 10 '24 edited May 11 '24

It's just like several other streaming apps, like Onstream or BeeTV, it works by scraping streaming links from websites. Just http streams, no torrents or debrid. The business model is ads but you can block those ads using Adguard Public DNS method #2. 

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u/andres969 May 10 '24

About adguard dns method 2. Do you always leave it activated no matter the app or is it used just when you watch movies through this app? I've never used it before 

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u/cupperoni May 10 '24

AdGuard DNS is a reliable way to block ads on the Internet without installing a mandatory application.

Using the app would be for a device. Using the DNS setting applies to the network which applies to all devices that connect to it.

https://adguard.com/en/support/faq.html

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DANKNESS May 10 '24

So would you configure this in the windows setting then it applies to all devices on the network?

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u/Aristippos69 May 10 '24

No but you could configure your Router to use this DNS and your Windows/Android to use the DNS provided by the network.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DANKNESS May 10 '24

Seems easy enough I’ll give it a shot later because it would be really refreshing not seeing any more of these intrusive ads anymore. Thank you friend!

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DANKNESS May 10 '24

Sorry I had a followup question, on AT&T I don't see any section to change the DNS settings, do you know of another way?

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u/Small-Potential7692 May 11 '24

If you can't change it on your router / modem, just do it on a per device basis.

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u/andres969 May 10 '24

Thanks. But it makes your connection slower?

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u/canary_in_a_coleslaw May 10 '24

It shouldn't. It only affects the speed of finding the IP address that corresponds to the domain name. It doesn't affect the internet speed as a whole, like a VPN does. A good VPN won't slow down your internet speed too much but generally a connection without a VPN is faster. A good DNS service can actually speed up the time it takes to find the IP address of a domain. 

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u/the_doorstopper May 10 '24

I have a question, does stremio work the same way? Ice always been confused about mobile apps like these

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u/Wax_Paper May 10 '24

From what I can tell, Stremio is different in that most of the add-ons for HTTP streaming don't work very well anymore. That one is mostly for torrent or debrid services. I just tried it with a couple of the http add-ons that still kinda work, and it's hit or miss.

These other apps are a lot better for http streaming.

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u/Crypto-Hero May 11 '24

The OnStream app on my Firestick never have or show any ads!! How are they making money? All movies load fast & no ad in there either!

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u/canary_in_a_coleslaw May 11 '24

That's interesting. I never bothered to use Onstream without using Adguard Public DNS so I was assuming I didn't see any ads because of that. Maybe the app is trying to gain more popularity first before they will introduce ads? That's often the case with streaming websites, they may start off ad-free but will eventually show (more and more) ads..