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Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by unixhero »

benbristow wrote: post #186
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.

Careful, maybe they will flag your account or something.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by josephcsible »

margalabargala wrote: post #258
josephcsible wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with your point, but you picked stunningly bad examples. MongoDB and ElasticSearch are both fauxpen source, and Vagrant and Docker are both open core. The only one on your list that's really open source is Red Hat. Better examples would be Nextcloud and Grafana.

I agree the SSPL means Mongo and Elastic are not free software, but they are open source, and I would not consider them proprietary.

The SSPL is not open source: https://opensource.org/node/1099

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by unixhero »

nonbirithm wrote: post #50
rchaud wrote: post #42

There aren't many moments where I truly feel dismay at the end of something's lifecycle, but this definitely is one. Vanced made mobile YouTube tolerable. I have NewPipe but it's not the same. Hopefully as the tweet says, it will stay functional for a while longer.

For me, it made YouTube so tolerable that I would spend significant amounts of time on it. Sometimes I get the feeling that a side effect of adblockers is that they unintentionally act as enablers for addicting platforms. At times, it's worth thinking about what you're using adblock to accomplish at a higher level. For me it was subjecting myself to YouTube's recommendations for several more hours per day. Luckily I…

Yes I am very addicted to YouTube because of Vanced. Those niche channels have given me a lot of fun.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by stiltzkin »

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

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Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by unixhero »

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

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Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by unixhero »

rg111 wrote: post #227

I had stopped using Vanced a few weeks back, because I couldn’t download videos beyond 360p. Now I know about Newpipe, but I manually download some videos with youtube-dl and then Syncthing them to my cell phone. Then watch it with VLC. It works perfectly fine for me. Btw, I think they had to stop because they tried to profit from it. I dislike them for it. Apparently they tried to mint NFTs [0]. Later they said it w…

You do this for every casual video you watch?

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by ehsankia »

heavyset_go wrote: post #142
stu2b50 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the end, it's not like the devs made any money off of this. If they weren't already in a Russia-like country, then it's not exactly reasonable to relocate for your side project you offer for free.

They apparently minted Vanced NFTs, so making money off of Vanced, or at least the brand, was in the pipeline. Probably part of their downfall, too.

Same with the Discord music bots, all of them streamed audio from Youtube, but also had paid subscriptions for extra features.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by quantum_magpie »

rvbissell wrote: post #169
quantum_magpie wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>- I feel like I'm forgetting another one or two other ralphy shits they've taken on us so far in 2022. Force people to give up phone number if they want to use gmail over IMAP

I hadn't heard this. I assume in this context, "give up" = disclose?

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