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Re: ReVanced

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Post by blibble »

hundchenkatze wrote: post #67
blibble wrote: post #37

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not sure MS will be too concerned about Google losing ad revenue

Maybe not, but MS does follow the DMCA takedown process. > "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.co…

you're not thinking like a bureaucrat

they can do it exceptionally slowly and specifically

Re: ReVanced

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Post by zumzumzum »

ben30 wrote: post #129

side note, on iOS, I uninstalled youtube app and use the site in safari with an ad blocker.

What adblocker do you use? I would love to cancel my premium subscription. I used to use vanced on android, but I really like iOS since I've switched.

Re: ReVanced

#133

Post by ohgodplsno »

Flankk wrote: post #108
matheusmoreira wrote: post #101

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> It's crazy how far people will go to justify taking food off other people's plate. We don't have to justify it. We simply don't want to see ads. That's the end of it. The second they insist on showing us ads despite our preferences, their software becomes malware and will be blocked. And nobody is "taking" anything off anyone's plate. They're the ones sending us free stuff bundled with ads. We're just deleting the…

> We don't have to justify it. We simply don't want to see ads. That's the end of it. Replace "see ads" with "pay money." Pirates are thieves and content theft is piracy.

Exactly. Because you know what's better than paid shit ? Free shit. Especially if it contributes to me not showing ads _and_ costing Google. I am happy to steal your precious, endlessly reproducible bytes.

Re: ReVanced

#134

Post by RandallBrown »

adamsmith143 wrote: post #68
nfriedly wrote: post #57

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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.

>It also restored the dislike button 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?

YouTube still has a dislike button. They just don't show you the number of dislikes anymore.

Re: ReVanced

#135

Post by ohgodplsno »

shultays wrote: post #74
henriquecm8 wrote: post #56

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That's really nice, I need to save this for when I buy an android tv

Be warned, even if you can block ads in youtube apps, most TV brands (and Google) started putting ads in their home screen. Mine was alright for 2-3 years but early this year there was an update that started putting "Watch these cool stuff in Disney app" and it is not removable. I rolled back the update for my home screen app, which works for now. I think you are able to use entirely different home screen apps but I…

On Android TVs, you can install launchers to replace the absolute dogshit launcher that Google has pushed with the latest big updates, thankfully.

Re: ReVanced

#136

Post by formerkrogeremp »

LinAGKar wrote: post #124
izacus wrote: post #62

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Or you know, paying a few bucks for the music via Premium subscription.

It's not "a few bucks", it's like $12 a month, more than most streaming services, for the privilege of having it not pause the video when you lock the phone. Which it shouldn't be doing in the first place. Also this yet one more thing on top of the subscriptions you already have. Can't subscribe to all of them.

I'm not sure it's worth the $20 per month for a family plan of up to five either.

Re: ReVanced

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Post by mschuster91 »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #105
outadoc wrote: post #99

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"Dislike" doesn't mean hate, personally I've only downvoted YouTube videos when they were badly made, or badly presented to the extent that almost any other video on the topic would be better. It's not about hate, it's a signal that the video is probably going to be a waste of time for the watcher.

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Re: ReVanced

#138

Post by nonbirithm »

I have a feeling that any piece of closed-source software that becomes important enough will inevitably be reverse engineered by highly motivated people. This is doubly so for Vanced: The original team took pains to not release the source, but it merely took a few weeks for someone else to reverse engineer the reverse engineered codebase.

I've worked on preserving a few games with decompilers long after the original creators have moved on. Anecdotally, the death of Flash all but killed off a couple of assorted communities that didn't have enough motivation to hack the binaries themselves.

My guess is the only software that can perpetually maintain a community is software where the source code is available to be modified.

Re: ReVanced

#139

Post by adra »

metadat wrote: post #94
henriquecm8 wrote: post #56

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That's really nice, I need to save this for when I buy an android tv

I never connect my TVs to the internet because you can't trust the manufacturers to keep them up to date and secure. And they might install more ads as part of a system "update".

Security? Are they not behind a firewall? What security vector are exposed plugging them into the internet? I don't see Samsung and co letting their telemetry domains lapse. Privacy and annoying updates are something totally different though.

Re: ReVanced

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Post by SifJar »

technocratius wrote: post #29
technocratius wrote: post #26

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I have YT Red, but still use Vanced so I can disable "addictive" functionalities (primarily _Stories_) which I cannot disable in the regular YT app.

*Shorts

YouTube has both shorts & stories as separate things, and I believe Vanced could remove both
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