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Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by mastazi »

jesprenj wrote: post #70
fuckcensorship wrote: post #2

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

A great issue for me with NewPipe is the fact that it does not support signing into an account. The developers claim it's a feature that will not be implemented. Without the great music recommendation system I might as well just listen to my Jellyfin song collection. What value does YouTube even have without recommendations?

Yeah NewPipe is a privacy oriented client, like FreeTube or Invidious or Piped, so I don't think they will ever implement sign in[1]. In this sense, NewPipe is not a Vanced replacement.

[1] some of these clients have their own sign in, but you are not signing into your actual YouTube account and you don't get recommendations from YouTube.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by spijdar »

Biganon wrote: post #87
amanaplanacanal wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

English spelling is so fucked up. Possessives normally have the apostrophe, except the possessive pronouns. Just because.

See also "whose", because "who's" would have made too much sense I guess

Well, for a period of time in "middle english", it was spelled "whos". Ultimately derived from the genitive singular form of Old English hwa, "hwaes". In OE the -es suffix marked the genitive case in strong masculine nouns.

Eventually, the form become generalized across all nouns, with -es being applied to any noun to indicate possession. In most cases, the e is silent, and typographers began to either omit it (e.g. "whos") or, eventually, replaced it with an apostrophe, as the French did. And I suppose "whose" gained an e to indicate the "long vowel".

So we've ended up in a situation where we've basically lost noun declension and just attach suffixes to indicate plurality and possession (s and 's), but our pronouns have inherited their old declensions, without the -es/-'s suffix attached.

Granted, "its" is itself a semi-recent invention, as OE and middle english used "his" for both masculine and neuter third person singular genitive pronouns.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by eins1234 »

rahidz wrote: post #81
indigodaddy wrote: post #75

I pay for YTM, so haven’t ever tried any of these Adblocking things for YT. I think $10/mo is pretty decent for a music service and also the removal of all ads from YT (which includes their fairly decent library of free movies that would be ad-supported without YTM/YTP)

I also pay for Youtube Music/YT, but I exclusively use Vanced on my phone, as it integrates with Sponsorblock, locks in a set quality setting (unlike the actual YT app which keeps kicking me to 480p when it feels like it), removes a lot of the cruft on the home page, and as of recently shows downvotes.

Wow, how did I just find out about Sponsorblock? That makes this news even sadder. :(

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by mkdirp »

zozbot234 wrote: post #27

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Unless you're a creator or an advertiser, I'm sure who why you'd be so against it, you can just not use it. It's not a "ripoff". It was just the official app with a bunch of mods applied. Ads blocked, sponser segments removed, dislike added and in general it had a bunch of UX improvements too. They never claimed it improved privacy or the recommendations. Those probably wouldn't be possible to improve anyway, since those are likely to be server side.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by CountHackulus »

nightfly wrote: post #90
gundamdoubleO wrote: post #64

Welp. Using the official Youtube app is a miserable experience. Guess it's time to check out NewPipe again.

What problems do you have with the official app? I normally have large list of complaints about video streaming services, and I don't have a single issue with the Android Youtube app

My big issue is the backgrounding. I like watching a video while cooking, but I also need to use timers. Not having the video stop and re-orient itself to portrait while I quickly set or dismiss a timer is excellent. I also find the UI during live streams to be borderline unusable on mobile.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by ReaLNero »

nightfly wrote: post #90
gundamdoubleO wrote: post #64

Welp. Using the official Youtube app is a miserable experience. Guess it's time to check out NewPipe again.

What problems do you have with the official app? I normally have large list of complaints about video streaming services, and I don't have a single issue with the Android Youtube app

Some videos have end cards which are super annoying and impossible to disable. Youtube Stories are stuffed in your face whether you like it or not because Youtube is competing with TikTok. Youtube doesn't think you understand numbers, so for video quality you can only choose Low Medium and High. There is no way to copy a video at a particular timestamp.

These are all solved by Vanced. Paying for Youtube premium does not solve any of these.

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