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Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

ehsankia wrote: post #288
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #225

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It's just a conveyor belt of bs. I can't disable comments, chat, etc. I don't care about uploading shorts. I'm tired of constant redesigns or moving things around. I just want to see videos related to what I search for or channels I'm subscribed to. I instantly feel like I'm capital to be maximized rather than a respected user when I open YouTube. Edit: While typing this they felt the need to use a push notification…

> I can't disable comments, chat, etc. Comments under video are just a thin 50px tall bar, just don't click on it? Just like you don't have to scroll down on the web. Just fullscreen and watch your video. > I don't care about uploading shorts Then don't press the shorts button? > I'm tired of constant redesigns or moving things around I don't think youtube gets that much redesign. On android, the biggest recent chang…

I'll stick with NewPipe or nothing.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by 4ggr0 »

addandsubtract wrote: post #366
4ggr0 wrote: post #267

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I am on YouTube since around 2009. I have never, ever bought something a YTer mentioned in a sponsored segment. They get paid just for talking about the products, what's the difference if I skip the segment manually, or if a plugin does it automatically?

IMO, quality wise, sponsored segments advertise better products than the YT ads. In most cases, they are tied to the video/creator and the creator talks and advertises them because they themselves use it. They feel a lot more organic and targeted than anything the YT algo ever showed me.

Well, another problem that I have is that I watch a lot of videos from US-based creators.

For me as a european, quite a lot of physical items which are being sponsored are not available in my country, so the ads for these are essentially useless.

The rest of the ads are VPNs(which I already got), various SaaS which I have absolutely no use for or things I already know (and don't want).

Online ads are already annoying and useless to me, but sponsored segments are even worse.

At least I don't feel bad for skipping these segments because AFAIK, creators just have to integrate these segments into the videos, that's it. The advertisers can't know if I've seen the segment so the creator gets paid the same, doesn't matter if I watch or skip it.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by scohesc »

dvngnt_ wrote: post #349
slenk wrote: post #237

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Upgrade to a YouTube Premium family plan for $14.99/mo and have no ads in YT either...

I have no desire to pay 15 for the ability to play videos with the screen off

Especially when it was a feature by default in the Youtube app, then they took it away and put it behind said $15 paywall!

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by RealStickman_ »

creshal wrote: post #343
gcthomas wrote: post #32

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Rather than just dis, could you be specific? It works for me, and I know a number of people who use it since they find it is better for them than the official client.

- Video playback breaks regularly and it takes 4-5 days for fixes to hit F-Droid. This is waaaay too slow. - Random other stuff keeps breaking, not that the 100+ lines of recursive Java gibberish in the crash popups tell you what broke (but the crash reporter itself does break regularly, too) - App structure is counterintuitive: You have tabs on the main screen, and the side bar... duplicates the tab buttons, but tur…

I'll just note that you first issue, with updates being delayed by 4-5 days is a general F-Droid issue and not specific to NewPipe. The delay exists, because F-Droid builds every application on their own server and that takes a while. You could search for an alternative repo that just pulls the apk from github (maybe Izzydroid?), or host one yourself.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by Gareth321 »

izacus wrote: post #362
Gareth321 wrote: post #328

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Years ago I drew a big red line in the sand for myself: no ads ever, for any reason, ever. If a service cannot fulfil this, I don't pay for it or use it. Makes the decision easy for me.

So does that mean you're paying for YouTube Premium (which explicitly stops showing ads when you give them those 10 bucks a month) or did you just move the goalposts here?

I pay for YouTube Premium. Have been for years.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by mardifoufs »

cortesoft wrote: post #249
nohuck13 wrote: post #198

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> "This post glows" That didn't used to be a "g" there, would be my guess.

Oh, that is just dumb

FYI it's a reference to something else. He's basically calling you a fed/gov shill. It's a reference to glow in the dark CIA agents that schizophrenic late programmer Terry Davis claimed were following him. So it turned into a meme, and now glowie means fed/3 letter agency/police and saying that something glows means it's shady. I dont know how he got that from your comment.

(A comment that "glows" would usually be something like: hey fellow members of radical political ideology, who is up for letting those politicians know what lead tastes like? Let's conspire to commit domestic terrorism!" )

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by crtasm »

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…

> unlike with other youtube alternative clients, you basically had almost 1:1 feature parity over the official app

I believe that's because unlike other alternative clients it is a modified version of the official app.

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