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Would it be possible to use it if the source code is forked?
Vanced was not open source, supposedly to avoid angering Google by openly sharing the mod. Not sure how that makes sense though now that I think about it
Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30444648 - Feb 2022 (346 comments)
https://twitter.com/YTVanced/status/1503083904047194116 What even...did Google force them to Tweet this or is it a joke?
NewPipe [1] is an open-source alternative, although latest versions of Vanced will supposedly keep working for the foreseeable future [2]. [1]: https://newpipe.net/ [2]: https://nitter.net/YTVanced/status/1503055442506915846#m
Sorry to shit on this, but NewPipe sucks. In my experience it's a waste of time to try and use it as a YT client replacement. It barely works, if at all. Casting definitely never ever worked for me, not even once. The user experience is unfamiliar and seems significantly worse than Vanced. Vanced is what the official youbutt app should've been. RIP.
Hard disagree. NewPipe is the only way I use youtube on mobile.
> It barely works, if at all. Casting definitely never ever worked for me, not even once.
Because casting requires usage of Google API's and NewPipe is privacy oriented.
It's not broken, it's as intended.
> The user experience is unfamiliar and seems significantly worse than Vanced.
I prefer it to default youtube . It's no nonsense, and gets the job done.
Haven't used vanced, so can't judge there.
Surprised it took so long to be honest. It was so good and unlike with other youtube alternative clients, you basically had almost 1:1 feature parity over the official app. Plus you had the option to disable almost all the recent UI changes easily and a sponsorblock integration. It was much much more of a threat to Google than newpipe or less "normie" friendly alt clients, and it was getting too popular for it's own…
I was under the impression that Vanced was a cracked version of the official app. If that was the case then they deserve to be sued.
(The YouTube Premium download feature is bad anyway because videos downloaded that way are artificially DRM-protected when the original streams are DRM-free can be downloaded using something like yt-dlp.)
Surprised it took so long to be honest. It was so good and unlike with other youtube alternative clients, you basically had almost 1:1 feature parity over the official app. Plus you had the option to disable almost all the recent UI changes easily and a sponsorblock integration. It was much much more of a threat to Google than newpipe or less "normie" friendly alt clients, and it was getting too popular for it's own…
I'm surprised they did not have a plan for this. I thought Vanced would be based in a more "rebel" country like Russia, which is what Sci-Hub does. A Cease and Desist letter from Google would be meaningless there. Were they trying to pull this off in the USA, or other Western countries?
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Just a nitpick, the word it's does not imply possession, you are looking for 'its'. If you cannot substitute your usage of it's with 'it is' then it is the wrong one to use.
English spelling is so fucked up. Possessives normally have the apostrophe, except the possessive pronouns. Just because.
Surprised it took so long to be honest. It was so good and unlike with other youtube alternative clients, you basically had almost 1:1 feature parity over the official app. Plus you had the option to disable almost all the recent UI changes easily and a sponsorblock integration. It was much much more of a threat to Google than newpipe or less "normie" friendly alt clients, and it was getting too popular for it's own…
Just a nitpick, the word it's does not imply possession, you are looking for 'its'. If you cannot substitute your usage of it's with 'it is' then it is the wrong one to use.
Even trying to query Google for the correct rules for it's/its doesn't turn up clear, concise information as you've achieved here in two sentences. Tragically, it's another case of SEO'd to death.
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Sorry to shit on this, but NewPipe sucks. In my experience it's a waste of time to try and use it as a YT client replacement. It barely works, if at all. Casting definitely never ever worked for me, not even once. The user experience is unfamiliar and seems significantly worse than Vanced. Vanced is what the official youbutt app should've been. RIP.
> Sorry to shit on this, but NewPipe sucks. In my experience it's a waste of time to try and use it as a YT client replacement. Hard disagree. NewPipe is the only way I use youtube on mobile. > It barely works, if at all. Casting definitely never ever worked for me, not even once. Because casting requires usage of Google API's and NewPipe is privacy oriented. It's not broken, it's as intended. > The user experience i…
Sorry, but until such things are rectified, New Pipe is a hell no for me; -10/10, worse than vanced, cannot recommend sharp-edged user-unfriendly software. Even when it's OSS and privacy friendly.
For a similar case, see gnuPGP. We all know how that one ended up not saving the world :(