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Oh wow, I just assumed it was made by a guy called Vance.
I think my positive perception of self named software dates back to Irfanview. I've been using it since 1998, never felt the need to change to anything else.
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$4/person for music streaming, and all the video on the internet, without ads? What is a fair price for you?
zero because they didn't do the creation work in the first place and they don't share their revenue with the creators. So how about that?
And Google does revenue share with creaters. Heard of the YouTube partner program? Partners receive money per view from people who watch ads or have premium, and premium views are worth more.
It always suprises me how unwilling the tech community is to support creators on YouTube. 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.
Youtube Premium is not available in my country. I should not have to endure two unskipable ads at the beginning and middle of a two minute video because of that.
Could anyone who is familiar with Java/Kotlin/Android explain how does this work? I tried decompiling YouTube App on Android to remove the ads some time ago, but I failed to compile it back because some kind of security thing did not allow the app to start.
- decompile using apktool
- make changes
- recompile apk using apktool
- zipalign apk
- sign apk (using the apksigner.jar) with a certificate
Tools like uber-apk-signer really help to do the last three steps
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No. If your business model is ads, I won't support you. I'll find a way to block your ads and I'll tell everyone who will listen how to do the same. I don't appreciate being brainwashed just so creators can get paid.
How would be your business model without ads if you owned YouTube then? As a video platform owner, you should pay creators, you should pay for all the server costs which is capable of 4k+ streaming, besides you serve all the music and pay royalties.
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>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 pr…
That's some serious mental gymnastic you have going there just to avoid paying musicians a few bucks to listen to their music. Don't worry, pirates have gone through these mental gymnastics to feel better about their entitlement since the time Napster appeared. Still doesn't change the fact that the author of that post refuses to pay a shitty 12 bucks per months to get access to all the music he wants and pay both th…
I decided to be a translator for this project - that's the best contribution I can do as I know nothing about android - it seems like a good cause for the following reasons: - I know of people who live in countries where YouTube Red isn't available, I pay for YouTube red myself and it's life changing. I want them to be able to experience this too in a way or another - I feel like Google might have done the right thin…
My guess is YouTube is well aware of the fact that new ones are going to pop up. I'm guessing they did the math and realized that YouTube Vanced became big enough that it was worth shutting down and removing it from the limelight while minimizing the Streisand Effect. > Maybe the strategy should be, introduce better features instead of taking them away and think about monetizing differently? As a Vanced user, I do ag…
Maybe for the majority of people, but surely I'm not the only one who would go back to Vanilla YouTube and pay for Premium if you could run Sponsorblock. I'm not paying 10 bucks a month to get rid of ads just to be bombarbed by "goofy" segways into mid-video commercials.
Sponsorblock - to me - is the killer feature of Vanced. It's crazy how much of a video is just stupid fluff that nobody has any use or need for.
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>At least they didn't make the copyright mistakes this time more like, trademark mistakes. Patching and redistributing a proprietary app most definitely violates copyrights.
Google didn’t do anything until Vanced tried to release an NFT and profit off the app
It was a stupid coincident. Google would've killed Vanced sooner or later.