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Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by vopi »

wbobeirne wrote: post #18

Asking this question in good faith and in the interest of a productive discussion: Can someone give me their reasoning for why to use this over just paying for YouTube premium? They're providing a service that you value and spend enough time on to warrant looking for a way to not have to view ads, and if everyone were to start using Vanced overnight, YouTube wouldn't be able to justify staying up indefinitely. It fee…

I simply don't care. I don't tolerate viewing ads. I currently use sponsorblock as well. I have paid for YouTube premium at some point but I see no reason anymore. There's enough people who don't know how to block ads and frankly if it ever got to that point I expect the big G to crack down hard (technical and legal means). It's the same thing with ad blocking. I'm sorry but when you have 11 percent of my average network requests being ads I will simply block those requests. Is it selfish? Of course. I'm not claiming to "stick it too the man", I just don't wanna see your shilling. Simple as.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by CogitoCogito »

wbobeirne wrote: post #18

Asking this question in good faith and in the interest of a productive discussion: Can someone give me their reasoning for why to use this over just paying for YouTube premium? They're providing a service that you value and spend enough time on to warrant looking for a way to not have to view ads, and if everyone were to start using Vanced overnight, YouTube wouldn't be able to justify staying up indefinitely. It fee…

Does Youtube offer to not track you in any way when using Youtube Premium? (This is a serious question. I don't know what features Youtube Premium has.)

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by efdee »

endisneigh wrote: post #19

Funny how people want content but don’t want to support content creators via ads or paying for YouTube Premium. The internet in a nutshell. Ironically if people weren’t so avoidant of paying for digital content, ads, and the subsequent tracking, would’ve never emerged.

Is that so, though? I've often read (but sadly cannot reproduce links at this point) that ad revenue is a multiple of subscription revenue - meaning a paying subscriber is worth a lot less than a non-paying-but-ad-watching subscriber.

Maybe if ads were somehow banned and services would only exist on a subscription driven basis, we'd have have more content worth buying and less clickbaity stuff.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by wand3r »

wbobeirne wrote: post #18

Asking this question in good faith and in the interest of a productive discussion: Can someone give me their reasoning for why to use this over just paying for YouTube premium? They're providing a service that you value and spend enough time on to warrant looking for a way to not have to view ads, and if everyone were to start using Vanced overnight, YouTube wouldn't be able to justify staying up indefinitely. It fee…

I dont use vanced but I am looking into it. Allegedly vanced has an iOS alternative. My reasoning is that Google is disgusting and has created a defacto monopoly. There is no way to outcompete a free product at scale so there basically can’t be an alternative. So I obviously use video and that means I use youtube. I dont want to support google, never want to see an ad and I honestly don’t care about the creator. If i did find someone who I regularly watched I would probably support them directly. I would never want to use youtube premium and infact constantly being bombarded by ads for youtube premium is a major reason i use an adblocker…

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by BipolarCapybara »

endisneigh wrote: post #19

Funny how people want content but don’t want to support content creators via ads or paying for YouTube Premium. The internet in a nutshell. Ironically if people weren’t so avoidant of paying for digital content, ads, and the subsequent tracking, would’ve never emerged.

Didn't the ads model emerge in part because in the early days it was really hard to pay for online services?

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by Shared404 »

endisneigh wrote: post #19

Funny how people want content but don’t want to support content creators via ads or paying for YouTube Premium. The internet in a nutshell. Ironically if people weren’t so avoidant of paying for digital content, ads, and the subsequent tracking, would’ve never emerged.

I do pay creators - through Patreon or buying music or merch.

I won't be forced to watch ads or use a UI I dislike though.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by ryanlitalien »

wbobeirne wrote: post #18

Asking this question in good faith and in the interest of a productive discussion: Can someone give me their reasoning for why to use this over just paying for YouTube premium? They're providing a service that you value and spend enough time on to warrant looking for a way to not have to view ads, and if everyone were to start using Vanced overnight, YouTube wouldn't be able to justify staying up indefinitely. It fee…

The benefits of YouTube Premium far exceed the monthly cost. I only realize this value prop when I try to access YouTube in incognito. Eye opening.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by criley2 »

jdubb wrote: post #16

Using YouTube only via Firefox with the uBlock Origin plugin works pretty well too. The simple solution without requiring any additional apps. Firefox has its own quirks which are discussed on Hacker News at length, but it's good enough. Actually, I've considered installing an older version of Firefox and disabling updates. But I feel that might pose security risks, and if at some point there's a novel virus requirin…

There's a major browser zero-day being used in the wild requiring immediate browser update basically every week it seems like.

Stay up to date or use the browser in a very safe environment in a way which does not have access to or use any of your personal information including accounts/passwords/etc.

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