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They should mirror somewhere outside of GitHub, this may get taken down.
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best part of vanced was the ability to background youtube so you can listen to music with the screen being locked
New pipe will do that too. Or just watching the video in the phone browser.
Youtube's frequency of ads has become so extreme that I've just yesterday opted to pay 11€/month for YT Premium. I had tried before disabling them with a Pihole or by blocking domains. It didn't work. Also, on a Samsung TV, you can't really install another front end.
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best part of vanced was the ability to background youtube so you can listen to music with the screen being locked
New pipe will do that too. Or just watching the video in the phone browser.
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New pipe will do that too. Or just watching the video in the phone browser.
Or you know, paying a few bucks for the music via Premium subscription.
Or you know, not lecturing people off your high horse on giving their hard earned cash to your corporate overlords on top of their private data, and instead, letting them use the internet as they please.
A few bucks here and a few bucks there adds up significantly for those not on Bay Area wages and getting hit by rampant inflation and energy prices.
You can donate to the creators Patreon, PayPal or Crypto wallets, if you wish to support them.
If YouTube were a boot-strapped start-up in a garage, I would totally agree with your point, but instead Google-YouTube is a multi trillion dollar monopoly and I'm already giving them my private data they monetize, which is more than enough, there's no way I'm giving them my hard earned cash on top of my private data, while they engage in anti consumer behavior by removing the dislike button and using other dark patterns to squeeze view time out of small creators and "maximize engagement" out of their user base.
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New pipe will do that too. Or just watching the video in the phone browser.
Or you know, paying a few bucks for the music via Premium subscription.
They should mirror somewhere outside of GitHub, this may get taken down.
not sure MS will be too concerned about Google losing ad revenue
> "If the notice alleges that the entire contents of a repository infringe, or a package infringes, we will skip to Step 6 and disable the entire repository or package expeditiously." [0]
This is what was going on with some Grand Theft Auto mods[1] and youtube-dl [2]
[0] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-polic...
[1] https://www.thegamer.com/taketwo-dmca-takedowns-gta-mods/
[2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/youtube-dl-re...
Apparently Vanced was a patched YouTube app for Android, removing ads, adding a dark theme and YouTube Premium features (probably more ?). It was discontinued two weeks ago: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/13/22975890/youtube-vanced-a...
It also restored the dislike button and added support for sponsorblock (which can automatically skip sponsor segments, as well as intros, outros, "like and subscribe" reminders, non-music sections of music videos, and other fluff.) The name comes from it being an "advanced" YouTube app, only without any "ad"s ;) Oh, and you could disable the comments section! All-in-all, it just made YouTube a much better experience.
As a useless button to click? I would assume youtube removed the actual functionality in the backend so what's the point of the button?
You're not hurting YouTube by blocking ads, you're hurting the people who get ads from their videos.
Just pay for Youtube Premium - its no different than Spotify or Apple music price-wise and people shell out for that without thinking every month.
Apparently Vanced was a patched YouTube app for Android, removing ads, adding a dark theme and YouTube Premium features (probably more ?). It was discontinued two weeks ago: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/13/22975890/youtube-vanced-a...
But re-using a proprietary app and patching it is IMHO crossing the line.