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Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by hunter2_ »

galangalalgol wrote: post #116
metadat wrote: post #92

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I always watch YT in firefox with ublock origin on, it seems to work 100%. It seems like pi-hole would work well too, but my router insists on providing a backup dns server when my pihole fails to find something... Need to go get a new one, preferably meshable.

There are a few ways to get your client devices to use the pihole:

- configure each client device accordingly (very inconvenient, but mentioning it for completeness)

- configure your router's DHCP service to tell clients that the DNS server is [IP address of pihole] instead of [IP address of router]

- configure your router's upstream DNS to be [IP address of pihole] instead of [what your modem offers] and leave the DHCP service alone (clients use the router as the DNS server)

I suspect you're using the third way, based on the issue you're having. Try the second way instead, so the router isn't even processing client lookups. (Maybe not all routers offer this. I use pfsense which does.)

Anyway, my pihole doesn't block YouTube ads... Can I remedy that?

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by dragonwriter »

labster wrote: post #165
dragonwriter wrote: post #162

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> Having come to adulthood in the 90s we all agreed that intellectual property was an oxymoron. Having come to adulthood in the 90s, we absolutely did not all agree that.

Are you sure the people who disagree actually came to adulthood, or are they just adult-aged?

> Are you sure the people who disagree actually came to adulthood

More than I am of those who don't.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by rOOb85 »

sphars wrote: post #10
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

I use NewPipe frequently. It's rumored that Vanced was sent a cease and desist (which seems pretty likely). Out of curiosity, what are the chances that NewPipe will face the same fate?

If I remember right, Vanced is the official YouTube app that was decompiled and modified. Where newpipe is an open source standalone app that uses no Google code or apis.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by rvbissell »

0des wrote: post #34
mardifoufs wrote: post #22

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.

As a native speaker I am well aware of that, but my typing muscle-memory is to some degree phonetic and on autopilot. So I sometimes reread what I wrote and discover I used e.g. 'two' instead of 'too'. It's/its is another common one.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by sreevisakh »

sonicggg wrote: post #47
mardifoufs wrote: post #22

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?

You reminded me of SciHub. What is the prospect of being able to avail it in the future, given the current situation in Russia?

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by benbristow »

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 signed up for it via an Indian VPN. Well worth the (£1.30) $1.70 a month - in the UK directly it's a bit of a rip-off IMHO.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by sreevisakh »

ReaLNero wrote: post #100
nightfly wrote: post #90

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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…

Those cards appear when pausing the video as well. You may be doing that to read something off the screen, only to be blocked by that nuisance.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by galangalalgol »

dragonwriter wrote: post #162
galangalalgol wrote: post #146

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Having come to adulthood in the 90s we all agreed that intellectual property was an oxymoron. It strikes me as odd people worry about the business model of mega corporations. Is it a sense of fairness? I have that instinct, but it doesn't apply to the likes of faang entities.

> Having come to adulthood in the 90s we all agreed that intellectual property was an oxymoron. Having come to adulthood in the 90s, we absolutely did not all agree that.

I shouldn't try to speak for a whole generation, you are right. The background of being told it was legal to tape movies from tv and songs from the radio and trade them, as long as we didn't charge money, and then when the BBSs and then internet apeared being told those rules didn't apply anymore made many of us decide we were not responsible for technology invalidating the business model of corporations that shared so little with those whose creations they profited from. The legality of it meant little given its unenforceable nature.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by EMIRELADERO »

sreevisakh wrote: post #173
rakoo wrote: post #132

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Vanced was proprietary, it's too bad for users but I won't shed a tear for its developers and would actually advise against doing anything that keeps it living. The very fact that there is a need to get apk archives before the links die is an artifact of being proprietary and would not have been an issue with Libre Software. The only way that makes sense for all of us as a democratic society is to keep control, and t…

What is the reason for the cease and desist? Code license or use of content? If it's the latter, then NewPipe won't survive either. We really need an alternative to YouTube, not another frontend to this exploitative platform.

Vanced didn't publish the letter, but I'd argue it was a code copyright issue. They applied patches to the original YouTube APK and then distributed it. If they had only distributed the patch diffs themselves and a tool to patch the user-provided YouTube app file, this wouldn't have happened.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by girvo »

metadat wrote: post #92
CPAhem wrote: post #62

For those who have the ability to do so, please make an Archive of all the Vanced Versions before the download links are taken down https://mirror.codebucket.de/vanced/

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Tbh I just pay for YT premium. I hate ads that much and always said I’d pay to avoid them. Money where my mouth is.
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