Vanced Discontinuation • Hacker News Board

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

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Post by Aaargh20318 » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 11:01 PM UTC

> 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

So if this is the actual reason, shutting down completely seems a bit of an overreaction. Why not just get a new logo and rebrand the app ?

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

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Post by silentsea90 » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 11:02 PM UTC

kayson wrote: post #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?

Do you subscribe to anything on the internet? Perhaps Spotify, your internet connection, Netflix? Have you considered their premium offering, or do you think YT should be free and without ads?

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

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Post by willcipriano » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 11:03 PM UTC

kayson wrote: post #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?

Try NewPipe

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

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Post by mkdirp » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 11:03 PM UTC

endisneigh wrote: post #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

All stuff they posted prior to shutting down pointed to this NFT not being a joke to be honest. Seems like their claim that it was a joke is more about damage control than it being true.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

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Post by HWR_14 » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 11:03 PM UTC

LewisVerstappen wrote: post #8

H8crilA wrote: 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.

Indeed. IIRC, there were quite a few issues with his testimony obfuscating things. But he was pretty blunt about the business model. I thought the point of the clip was how out of touch the Senator asking was.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

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Post by jtdressel » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 11:04 PM UTC

kayson wrote: post #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?

I think this is it: https://apkpure.com/youtube-vanced/com.vanced.android.youtub...

I have not done any level of verification.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

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Post by that_guy_iain » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 11:04 PM UTC

Aaargh20318 wrote: post #11

> 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 So if this is the actual reason, shutting down completely seems a bit of an overreaction. Why not just get a new logo and rebrand the app ?

Because Google probably had more than just your logo looks like ours.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

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Post by mkdirp » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 11:05 PM UTC

kayson wrote: post #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?

There are archives of them including checksums to ensure the files are not tampered with. I'd rather not post it here as I don't think it's allowed here, but the Vanced subreddit will have quite links.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

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Post by toxicFork » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 11:06 PM UTC

squarefoot wrote: post #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…

NDA?

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

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Post by bradleybuda » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 11:07 PM UTC

Aaargh20318 wrote: post #11

> 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 So if this is the actual reason, shutting down completely seems a bit of an overreaction. Why not just get a new logo and rebrand the app ?

It’s a get-rich-quick scheme, not a get-rich-by-putting-in-a-little-bit-of-work-when-presented-with-adversity scheme.