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Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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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.

Resuming issues were bug in the last few versions, but has been fixed in the latest release.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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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.

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.

>Youtube takes half the ad revenue

Yeah, that's how they pay for the infrastructure. Imagine that.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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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 would gladly pay for YouTube Premium if they didn't bundle it with YouTube Music which I have no plans for using.

I would also gladly pay for YouTube Premium if they used purchase power parity matching. 12$/10€ for a digital content delivery service is not the same for the US, UK or Croatia.

If it cost 5€ monthly for YouTube Premium without YouTube Music, I'd be fine with that.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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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 feel content on the internet was free for so long, people just feel entitled to it. Now everyone is anti-ad, with most not being able to support an argument as to why targeted ads are bad (like any human at Google cares how user 1839028934 watches vtubers for 8 hours a day), but they still feel entitled to consume content for free.

There are plenty of reasons to hate ads.

https://cosmicskeptic.github.io/blog/advertising-industry/

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

#335

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 used to have no adblockers on anything, and I was fine with it. Then I had kids, and I wasn't really comfortable with bringing them up in an environment where when you tell a computer to do one thing ("Play this video") it does a different thing ("I will do that, but not before I do what I want to do"). There are a few websites that have ad supported videos that I am ok with my kids watching, and putting uBlock Ori…

Same, sometime I get naughty ads, I wonder what impression it would leave on children mind. I think someone has uploaded the few examples of such egregious vice.

https://cosmicskeptic.github.io/blog/advertising-industry/

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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While at university in the US, I subscribed to YouTube Premium. Once I graduated and moved back home, I was able to continue paying for YouTube Premium (and still do), but using any of the features such as background playback required me to use a VPN. So, I use Vanced. I like to think my Premium membership is going towards the creators I watch, but as far as I'm concerned, I did my part.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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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.

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

I personally use a different, fame account for Vanced. Most people should be doing that anyway because who knows when Google will crackdown on it and start blocking any account using Vanced.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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post #238

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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.

No... per user, YouTube Premium pays out way more than ads do. Overall, yes, of course, ad revenue is a higher contributor, since very few people use YouTube Premium.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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post #78

This is nonfree, I've used it and found it a little ostentatious for my taste. NewPipe is open-source and the interface makes more sense to me. I think Vanced preserves Chromecast compatibility (correct me if I'm wrong) which NewPipe can't do.

Wait, what? Vanced's UI is virtually identical to YouTube.
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