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Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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generalizations wrote: post #307
ApolloFortyNine wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can, today, pay for youtube premium and receive an ad free viewing experience. >Why do you have a problem with that? Why do you have the problem with simply paying? Or simply not using any websites that have ads? Speak with you 'wallet' (in this case, view impression) if you will.

> Why do you have the problem with simply paying? Never said I do. You, however, seem to have a problem with the idea that not wanting to be tracked and watched is a legitimate desire. Why is that?

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Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by jthrowsitaway »

yellowapple wrote: post #157
kyriakos wrote: post #121

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Unfortunately it's very buggy and still not ready for full time use. Crashes all the time, importing subscriptions is hard. But it's FOSS and I still use it regardless cause vanced concerns me because it needs access to my account

It's a lot less crashy nowadays (at least from what I can tell from using it daily).

I want to like NewPipe but I've always had problems with resuming videos after pausing them in the background. Most of the time my progress is just completely lost. Also, full screen and popover mode have been broken since Android 12. I use Vanced at this point.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by scim-knox-twox »

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…

Check SponsorBlock extension

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by scim-knox-twox »

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.

> Funny how people want content but don’t want to support content creators via ads or paying for YouTube Premium.

I don't support Google.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by scim-knox-twox »

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 don't support Google / ads / tracking.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by Krasnol »

ApolloFortyNine wrote: post #320
Krasnol wrote: post #250

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Credit scores, racial profiling and other data based discriminations

>Credit scores At least you started off with by far your worst example. The alternative to credit scores is only the wealthy getting loans, full stop. Any alternative would require a human being combing your finances for hours, which would obviously substantially raise the cost of loaning money.

Oh so let's build scores based upon social media interactions and google results because this is fair? What? No. Not ANY alternative would require a human. There are a few numbers you actually need. You should have to ASK for those!!

Besides that: I don't care about someone losing money because they actually have to sit down a human to verify data which is relevant. This is what humans are good for and if it cost you, you can put it on a bill.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by mkdirp »

ApolloFortyNine wrote: post #204
mkdirp wrote: post #48

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On average only 3 pieces of information are needed to identify a person. Sure you're person 1234567890, but all the information linked to that user can find out exactly who that person is.

So? If your issue is government surveillance, take it up with them, get a law created so they can't look at it. If it's the company, they truly don't care who you are, you truly are 1234567890 to them. If that, it's unlikely a human being will ever actually look at your data.

If you think you truly are user 1234567890 then you're sorely mistaken. Corporations have one thing in mind, and that is profit. They'll use your data however they see fit to maximise those profits. If that means identifying you, then so be it.

There is a reason phrase like microtargetting exists. When a political group is able to target individuals using their platform, that's not okay.

It gets worse though, government surveillance is one thing, it's another when Corporations give them full access to their data. Or did we forget Snowden already?

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by ranguna »

operator-name wrote: post #66
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.

There's also this fork that includes sponsorblock: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

A fork?

Venced has sponsor block by default.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by ranguna »

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.

Not only that, but also sponsorblock, awesome feature that skips sponsors mid video (it can also skip other things like intros and stuff)

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by elcomet »

Drew_ wrote: post #238
JSavageOne wrote: post #64

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The best way to support creators actually is to support them directly. Youtube takes half the ad revenue, and ad revenue generally doesn't pay much anyways.

Creators presumably receive more from YouTube Premium viewers though I haven't seen any specific details on the revenue split. Either way, lets not pretend that any ad block user tips every single YouTuber they view.

No, creators receive much more from sponsoring than from any other sources on YouTube. So ublock has no effect on this source of money. Only the number of views can affect it.
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