v0.0.5

HushPinterest 0.0.5 has 23 patches for Pinterest 14.38.0, and Pinterest 14.25.0 still patches the same way for phones on Android 9. It's built on Morphe patcher 1.15.1, so it needs Morphe Manager 1.34.0 or newer. The big one is Download pin: it now saves image pins at full size. New this time are Remove ad tracking permissions, Hide topic suggestions and Spoof signature for Google sign-in, and Disable analytics turns off more of Google's collection.

What's new

• Download pin now saves image pins. Pinterest's app is sent display sizes rather than the original for most pins, and the pin menu used to show "Download unavailable" for all of them. Now the download asks Pinterest's media host for the original behind the largest size and saves it, or saves that largest size when there's no original. Copy media link copies the same address, and Supplied media details says which size it describes. Thanks for the report in #2.
• Original-quality images now reaches pin closeups, not only collages. With it on, HushPinterest asks Pinterest for each pin's original along with its display sizes, and the closeup shows the original instead of the large size. Download pin then saves that original directly. Pins Pinterest already loaded keep their size until it loads them again.
• New Remove ad tracking permissions patch, on by default. It takes Google's advertising ID permission and Android's Privacy Sandbox ad services permissions and configuration out of Pinterest's manifest. There's no switch for it, so it stays until you patch again without it. While it's in, Google Play services hands Pinterest an all-zero ad ID even with Hide advertising ID turned off.
• Disable analytics now also turns off Firebase Crashlytics and Performance collection in the manifest, stops Google Analytics from collecting the ad ID, and sets Google's default consent for analytics storage, ad storage, ad user data and ad personalization to denied. Pinterest shipped all four consent defaults as granted. Like the Firebase Analytics flag, this stays until you patch again without the patch.
• New optional Hide topic suggestions patch. It hides the "Ideas you might love" row of topic bubbles under a pin, and the space it took closes up too. The switch starts off. Turn it off again, or pause HushPinterest, and the row comes back the next time Pinterest lays it out. Comments and related pins aren't touched.
• New Spoof signature for Google sign-in patch, off by default. It adds Pinterest's original signing certificate to the manifest so Google sign-in can work in the patched app. That only matters with microG-RE in place of Google Play services, or with the XSpoofSignatures LSPosed module and its permission granted. Stock Google Play services ignores it, and email and password sign-in never needed it.

Update from 0.0.4

1. Morphe Manager offers 0.0.5 from the HushPinterest patch source. Patch the same Pinterest build you have now and install it over your current Pinterest. Your sign-in and switches stay, as long as Morphe Manager signs it with the same key as before.
2. Remove ad tracking permissions is new and selected by default. Hide topic suggestions and Spoof signature for Google sign-in are new and start unselected, so pick them in Morphe Manager if you want them. Hide topic suggestions also has a switch on the Interface page of HushPinterest settings.
3. Skip Spoof signature for Google sign-in unless your phone runs microG-RE or the XSpoofSignatures module. On a phone with Google Play services it does nothing.

New install

1. Install Morphe Manager 1.34.0 or newer.
2. Add HushPinterest as a patch source: https://morphe.software/add-source?github=SysAdminDoc%2FHushPinterest
3. Download Pinterest 14.38.0, version code 14388010, as the universal APK, and patch it. On Android 9, use Pinterest 14.25.0, version code 14258020.
4. Uninstall the stock Pinterest first, since Android won't put one over the other. Save anything you keep only on the phone before you do. Your boards and pins come back when you sign in.
5. Sign in with your email and a Pinterest password. If you joined through Google or Facebook, tap Forgot your password? on Pinterest's login page to set one first.
6. Right after your first patch, export Morphe Manager's signing key (Settings, then System, then Import & export, then Signing key) and keep it somewhere private. Updates only install over a Pinterest signed with that same key.

The .mpp download is a patch bundle, not a Pinterest APK. Installation instructions. SHA256SUMS.txt is signed with the HushPinterest release key, fingerprint FCE5 ECE3 182A 647B 3AF2 C5ED 2DC3 5E8D 5C00 E8A6. How to check a download.

Validation

All 170 patch tests and 693 extension tests passed on this commit, none skipped. The bundle attached here was patched onto real Pinterest 14.38.0 and 14.25.0 APKs with Morphe's desktop patcher, and all 23 patches applied to both without forcing. release-receipt-0.0.5.json records each of those results, the APK hashes and what patching changed in the app's manifest.

On a signed-in Android 16 phone running patched 14.38.0, Download pin saved the originals behind Pinterest's 736x size (a 541x721 PNG, and a 1134x1621 PNG for a 736x1052 pin), and Copy media link copied the same originals address. With Original-quality images on, the feed loaded, the closeup showed the original and Download pin saved a 1080x1080 JPEG. With Remove ad tracking permissions and the new Disable analytics manifest changes in, Pinterest launched to the signed-in feed without a crash, and the installed app no longer held the ad ID or ad services permissions.