Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

Post by Bootvis » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 8:09 PM UTC

ohmanjjj wrote: post #107

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…

If someone can’t afford $15 for Premium, they likely shouldn’t be wasting their time watching videos to begin with, and instead focus their time and effort on making a living.

Post by rryan » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 8:11 PM UTC

giordano-bruno wrote: post #53

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 same reason we all use(d) The Pirate Bay. Information deserves to be free, remember? We can distribute videos for free, you remember that, right? We can also pay content creators, who get ripped off by YouTube anyway. Ask them about that. Are you suggesting that HackerNews readers should also remove their adblockers? That we are bound by a Kantian moral obligation to be subjected to enticement and manipulation fo…

Post by dirtyid » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 8:11 PM UTC

xwx wrote: post #8

Vanced is pretty good. It seems like it's just the official YouTube app but with premium for free. Newpipe is another ad-free YouTube app. https://newpipe.net/ It's FOSS and doesn't use your Google account, or any of the YouTube APIs. You can still manage subscriptions but you have to import them manually.

Post by dhc02 » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 8:12 PM UTC

ohgodplsno wrote: post #101

dhc02 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. No ads 2. Free YouTube Music subscription (cancel your Spotify subscription) 3. Download videos and playlists to your device before a flight or other no-service scenario 4. Every time you watch a video, a proportional percentage of your subscription fee goes to that creator, no matter whether they are in a lucrative (i.e., ad-friendly) niche or not. 5. One less browser extension (or mobile app) I need to give perm…

1. Vanced does it, and so does uBlock. 2. So I can have access to a worse player ? Which is already impressive given how bad Spotify is. 3. youtube-dl. 4. Giving 0.000005$ to a creator for me watching 20 minutes of video is still Google rent-seeking 5. Fair enough. But then I'm trading one browser extensions that might track me (but that doesn't) for the certainty that Google will absolutely track me to vomit out mor…

Post by gtirloni » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 8:12 PM UTC

leetcrew wrote: post #81

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…

> if everyone were to start using Vanced overnight, YouTube wouldn't be able to justify staying up indefinitely. I personally find categorical imperative arguments to be ridiculous. almost anything could be bad if everyone did them all the time. the reality is that adblocking, torrenting, and similar workarounds are used by a small subset of technically savvy users. most people just don't care enough to configure any…