TVAddons also started taking over repos when add-on developers quit.ĭevelopers (like Blamo and 13 Clowns) would get fed up with doing free support for Kodi users ( or they got paid by TVAddons, who knows?) and they would delete their GitHub account, allowing for “someone” to swoop in and register that same username and publish a Kodi repo that auto-installs Indigo. TVAddons Auto-installs Indigo via Repo Takeoversīut, that wasn’t enough. Many add-ons have switched over to ResolveURL, but not all of them, yet. That’s why we have ResolveURL which is a fork or URLResolver which doesn’t auto-install Indigo. Kodi users started seeing the TVAddons popup when they never installed anything from TVAddons. Great move on their part, because guess how many unofficial streaming add-ons listed URLResolver as their dependency a while back? Almost all of them! With that one move, they got their add-on pushed out to millions of Kodi devices. TVAddons used this trick on their resolver add-on called URLResolver to list Indigo as a dependency. This has been used in the past to push malware. Well, dependencies are getting used more and more often to force-push add-ons onto unsuspecting users. This allows for one add-on to declare that it is dependent on another add-on for it to work. Kodi add-ons have a concept called “dependencies”. But, TVAddons just has an annoying popup that you have to dismiss every time you open Kodi.īut wait, it gets worse… TVAddons Auto-installs Indigo via Dependencies But, I prefer to offer my readers some valuable content, and if they are interested in using a VPN, they can use my link. It seems like their primary goal has been to get their “ Indigo” add-on installed on as many devices as possible in order to greet users with a popup on boot that pitches their VPN affiliate link. Since then, their tactics have gotten pretty shady in order to scrape back whatever audience and revenue that they could from their glory days. When they eventually came back up on a new domain, everyone else had moved on and they were only allowed to host legal add-ons anyway. Then in 2017, they got slammed with some pretty serious lawsuits that even managed to seize their website as evidence, bringing them down overnight. Back in the day, their Fusion repo could be found on almost every Kodi installation out there.
TVAddons used to be THE source of all the best unofficial Kodi add-ons.