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Vanced Discontinuation

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Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#101

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Try NewPipe

NewPipe is garbage. Vanced has that original YouTube app feel, but works even better.

Yeah. Newpipe is admirable but in practice the UX is almost sad in comparison to the real thing. Maybe in the future it will be better.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#102
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?

Follow this guide: https://old.reddit.com/r/Vanced/comments/tdzmgw/other_how_to... In the future the ReVanced project will success it.

Where are you getting info about "ReVanced"?

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#103
post #81

> 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…

Vanced is a modified version of the official Youtube app. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure it's a copyright violation to distribute modified versions of someone else's software without their permission. What's probably not illegal to distribute is the source code for the tools they used to generate those modified Youtube apps, so I'm a bit surprised by how adamantly they're refusing to do so in this post.

The source code itself is probably also an infringing derivative work of YouTube's Android app.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#104
post #84

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It could be that Google says they're infringing on the logo design, and Google demanded that they stop distributing the app due to this. "We were also asked to remove all links for the distribution of any vanced apps that led to the decision of discontinuation." Whatever the second half of that sentence may mean in plain English, the whole article is hard to parse.

Logos are easy to change though

> Logos are easy to change though

Sure, but the past is hard to change. So, when a company is threatening to take legal action based on violations you have already committed unless you take a specified set of steps, merely stopping future violations without complying with the rest of their demands is risky.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#105
post #88

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That makes no sense. Why is "YouTube Premium" capitalized?

YouTube Premium is an actual product, but as far as I'm aware it doesn't generate much revenue for creators which I why I assumed they meant channel membership. https://www.youtube.com/premium

> but as far as I'm aware it doesn't generate much revenue for creators

I’ve heard that per viewer it brings in a lot more than the per viewer ads revenue from non-Premium viewers.

Not sure what the typical viewer numbers for each are; probably depends on the channel a lot.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#106
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 is PureTuber as well. Haven't tried it yet, but from what I read it has a similar experience to Vanced.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#107
This part jumped out at me:

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

???

Anyone have any idea (or even guesses) as to what that's about? Does the source contain a murder confession?

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#108
post #107

This part jumped out at me: > The vanced team will "NEVER" make its source code public. Making the source code available on the internet can cause serious complications for us. ??? Anyone have any idea (or even guesses) as to what that's about? Does the source contain a murder confession?

The trademark issue probably was resolved with "shut down and don't release source, and we won't sue you for your past violations"

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#109
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?

I’m sure he’s considered it, but like many of us here, he refuses to voluntarily give Google a dime, for reasons that are obvious to most.

Re: Vanced Discontinuation

#110
post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That makes no sense. Why is "YouTube Premium" capitalized?

YouTube Premium is an actual product, but as far as I'm aware it doesn't generate much revenue for creators which I why I assumed they meant channel membership. https://www.youtube.com/premium

Offtopic but I bought YouTube Premium a few months ago and it's 100% worth the money. YouTube ads are aggressive and it turns out I used YouTube all the time. I didn't really notice until I started paying for it how much time I spent having to wait for ads to end or skipping them.

Now I get angry every time I end up in YouTube via incognito when using social media and an ad plays.

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