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Vanced Discontinuation

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Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#2
> The main source of income for youtube isn't ads. YouTube revolves around the merchandise and YouTube Premium subscriptions.

Lol. You can open Alphabet's 10-Q or 10-K and find out in a matter of seconds how untrue this is. Reminds me of the famous "Senator, we run ads " by Zuckerberg.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#3
> The vanced team will "NEVER" make its source code public. Making the source code available on the internet can cause serious complications for us.

How would Google have acted if the source code was open source from the beginning?

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#4
> Some users believe that Google had sent cease & desist letter because the Vanced Team had posted NFT to earn money out of the vanced project. The Vanced NFT was never sold in the end. Besides, it was done as a joke and nothing more.

Says everything you need to know about NFTs

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#5
>The vanced team will "NEVER" make its source code public. Making the source code available on the internet can cause serious complications for us.

There shouldn't be issues as long as you are sharing them as patches unless they didn't own the rights to the code they added.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#6

> Some users believe that Google had sent cease & desist letter because the Vanced Team had posted NFT to earn money out of the vanced project. The Vanced NFT was never sold in the end. Besides, it was done as a joke and nothing more. Says everything you need to know about NFTs

What does this say about NFTs exactly?

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#7
I'm really sad I missed the boat on Vanced by one day. I'd heard about it for a long time and randomly decided to finally start using it only to find all the download links had been removed the day before. Youtube ads have become horrendously annoying.

Does anyone know if the apks can be found on any archive site?

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

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post #2

> The main source of income for youtube isn't ads. YouTube revolves around the merchandise and YouTube Premium subscriptions. Lol. You can open Alphabet's 10-Q or 10-K and find out in a matter of seconds how untrue this is. Reminds me of the famous "Senator, we run ads " by Zuckerberg.

> Reminds me of the famous "Senator, we run ads " by Zuckerberg.

Why? Zuckerberg wasn’t lying when he said Facebook makes their money from ads though.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#9
> Vanced is discontinued for "legal reasons" as vanced was infringing the logo and branding of the original YouTube app as the logo resembles the original logo in a similar way and was used without taking prior permission from Google for using the branding.

Huh?!? That was the only reason behind the C&D letter and they killed the product when a simple logo redesign could have solved the issue? Or the C&D letter would have voided any attempt to do that? Something doesn't add up.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#10

> Some users believe that Google had sent cease & desist letter because the Vanced Team had posted NFT to earn money out of the vanced project. The Vanced NFT was never sold in the end. Besides, it was done as a joke and nothing more. Says everything you need to know about NFTs

What does this say about NFTs exactly?

That they’re schemes to make money that don’t withstand scrutiny or solve problems better than the alternatives.
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