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I'm a NewPipe user. I just think distributing a cracked version of somebody else's app calls for being sued.
Define "cracked" here. Is it a crack to add a feature to an app, for example?
Back to not using YouTube on mobile.
I'm not a power user, but I have found this combination works well: Firefox + uBlock Origin + Video Background Play Fix uBlock Origin -> removes the ads (but no sponsorblock) Video Background Play Fix -> lets you turn off the screen or switch tabs with it still playing
Doing none of that and just pay for YouTube premium.
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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…
I don't get this argument against proprietary software. People building software should be able to expect payment for their work and effort. Food is required for a healthy society but would anyone here advocate for farmers to give away all of their produce for free? Text-tiles are necessary for society but would you advocate that clothing be provided by the creators free of charge? The only thing different about soft…
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> People building software should be able to expect payment for their work and effort. But, but, ... Vanced is free-as-in-beer software that prevents Google getting ad revenue for their product/service.
Google is not losing any appreciable amount of money to Vanced.
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I find it so irritating that Google essentially exists as a giant scraping system and they have the legal ability to persecute anyone taking content hosted on their platforms. Hypocrisy should be a legal defence in my opinion, i.e. if you take public content and repurpose it for your own needs you shouldn’t be allowed to sue for the same reason.
This is just about YouTube. What part of YouTube is scraping?
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SponsorBlock is it’s own thing separate of Vanced. https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Yep, I know. I was just lamenting the loss of the ability to use it in Vanced. Maybe I'll try the Youtube mobile website + Firefox.
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Breaking Vanced would also break YouTube (read: be unable to show ads) for people whose YouTube app is outdated.
how strict is youtube about maintaining backwards compatibility with outdated apps/versions of android? do they ever break compatibility?
>do they ever break compatibility?
Yes, but I can't seem to easily find data on how often they do. I assume the "Currently installed versions will work just fine, until they become outdated in 2 years or so." is referring to how long they expect Google to keep compatibility with the latest version they used.
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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 D…
I've not found a solution for YouTube app on Android TV other than using Vanced! Not sure if Adguard for Android helps either.
The ads are so bad and so frequent in the YouTube app that I hardly ever use it.
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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.
Thanks, I always get confused about this and believe it or not, I almost majored in English! 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 .
Use a dictionary or simply "define:"