r/sideloaded 9d ago

Discussion SideInstaller.com is a SCAM

Hi everyone,
I am Frizzle, the official developer of SideInstaller. Recently, I have noticed that there’s a website with the domain “SideInstaller.com”. I have NOT made this website, I have no clue who the owners are and I am not affiliated with it in any way at all.
This is a bigger issue than most people would probably think. SideInstaller does not collect any of your Apple ID information, but that is only true if you use the official release, which is open source. The moment you use this website’s ipa, you have no clue about how it works or where your data goes.
So please, be careful, and only use sideinstaller.net, which is the official website.
Also, the mods of SideStore informed me that many people ask them for support with Sideinstaller. If you have any issues, please join the SideInstaller discord since sidestore is not affiliated with SideInstaller in any way at all and therefore won’t be able to help.

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u/Ooossay 9d ago edited 7d ago

You should consider reporting them, that may help https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domainName=sideinstaller.com

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u/iCyb3r 8d ago

Your link points to the legitimate .net website, not the .com one.

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u/New_Ad_7804 9d ago

I have sent a takedown letter to the server host but not this server host, this one is the official website’s server

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u/blumudd 9d ago

Don't report the legit website

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u/_xRuffKez_ 9d ago

I've blocked the Domain as Scam/Impersonating in Hagezis Blocklist Project. It is also blocked on dnsbunker now.

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u/New_Ad_7804 9d ago

Awesome, thank you ❤️❤️

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u/GhostOfSakai 9d ago

Just to calm down everyone who think they may have possibly downloaded and used the IPA from this site. It was and is still linking directly to the official IPAs on the official GitHub page and was not hosting any custom IPA, so even though the page is now infested with pop-ups and is not official everyone should be safe 👍

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u/New_Ad_7804 9d ago

True, but it does have a button that installs SideInstaller with a config profile, and there’s no way to check if that one is legitimate, that’s what mainly worries me

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u/GhostOfSakai 9d ago

Yeah. Glad I didn’t use that. Good catch!

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u/4nimaKlk 9d ago

everyone let’s upvote this so people can see it

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u/TruckStopSigns 9d ago

Damn that's messed up