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Re: ReVanced

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Post by LosWochosWeek »

mminer237 wrote: post #156
moondev wrote: post #118

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> Not affiliated with Vanced team. I wonder if the original "vanced" can now file a dispute over this project's name?

Theoretically they could sue for trademark infringements, but: 1. ReVanced has a disclaimer that they're not affiliated, which helps make sure people aren't confused. 2. The Vanced people probably are glad someone's continuing their efforts after they're no longer able to. 3. Vanced has been discontinued and taken down, so it's no longer "used in commerce", so I think the common law trademark should cease to exist.

> sue for trademark infringements

Yeah, maybe at the piracy trademark comission on pirate island... For obvious reasons Vanced had no trademark on anything and thus can't sue for trademark infringements.

They could possibly sue for a copyright infringement, but for that they'd have to prove that they do in fact hold a copyright on whatever they're suing for. They'd have to prove that (whatever) indeed is either (a) an original work that's protected under copyright or (b) it's a derivative work that's protected under copyright.

Re: ReVanced

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Post by The_Colonel »

Normille wrote: post #185
entropicdrifter wrote: post #153

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Firefox for Android also supports uBlock Origin

..but, unfortunately doesn't have text-reflow. Yandex Browser has text-reflow and used to support uBlock Origin [and other extensions] too. Now it no longer supports installing uBO. So Android currently has two browsers, each of which is half useful!

Note that Yandex is a Russian company and as such carries significant risks.

Re: ReVanced

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Post by Z_I_F_F »

sofixa wrote: post #170
hohoemi8 wrote: post #3

What did Google expect? If they take this one down another will appear to take its place, and so on.

There are already alternatives out there (like New Pipe). Vanced was taken down because they tried to monetise it via an NFT which crossed a line.

The NFT had nothing to do with the takedown. According to the Vanced team, it was taken down because the logo they used was too similar to the official one.

Re: ReVanced

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Post by Sakos »

zoover2020 wrote: post #176
hijinks wrote: post #39

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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

NewPipe does this, too :)

The most important part of Vanced is it allowed you to login to your account. NewPipe isn't an alternative to Vanced. It fills a completely different (more privacy-focused) niche.

Re: ReVanced

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Post by cturhan »

Arch485 wrote: post #86
slenk wrote: post #69

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.

Most people just get sponsored these days. YouTube ad revenue hasn't been viable for a long time...

How? A creator earns $1k-10k per million views (US - depending on video length)

Re: ReVanced

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Post by cturhan »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #184
endisneigh wrote: post #160

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If you don’t watch the videos, then you won’t see the ads, no?

Yeah, but I'll watch the videos anyway. Because they're free, I'm not obligated to pay attention to ads and uBlock Origin gets rid of them.

Nothing is “free”

Re: ReVanced

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Post by ajsnigrutin »

d82nsjk9 wrote: post #151
ushakov wrote: post #60

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i'm confident Google can't patch this without breaking their own app

why?

(Re)Vanced is an app, dealing with googles backend.

They can either change the youtube app, to break Vanced, but this can be mitigated by not upgrading the youtube app, until there are patches for the new version,... or they can change the backend, thus breaking all the older youtube clients, making everyone upgrade their clients "now", which is a pain in the ass for many people.

Re: ReVanced

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Post by sofixa »

Z_I_F_F wrote: post #213
sofixa wrote: post #170

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There are already alternatives out there (like New Pipe). Vanced was taken down because they tried to monetise it via an NFT which crossed a line.

The NFT had nothing to do with the takedown. According to the Vanced team, it was taken down because the logo they used was too similar to the official one.

Why did Google wait so long? Vanced was hoe many years long? It was absolutely about the NFT thing.

Re: ReVanced

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Post by matheusmoreira »

cturhan wrote: post #216
matheusmoreira wrote: post #184

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Yeah, but I'll watch the videos anyway. Because they're free, I'm not obligated to pay attention to ads and uBlock Origin gets rid of them.

Nothing is “free”

Sure it is. At no point does YouTube charge me any money before streaming any of their videos. They send it to my browser absolutely free of charge.

They do so hoping that I'm gonna look at the ads. I'm not obligated to make it happen.

Re: ReVanced

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Post by dddddddan »

cturhan wrote: post #197
monocularvision wrote: post #179

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Check out Vinegar ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303 ...) It is so good I am almost afraid to mention it and it get too popular. No affiliation at all with the product, just a happy user. (edited to remove incorrect statement)

App is not available in my country (us) :(

What? Yes it is. If you opened that link on desktop though it will show that message since it will try to open the mac app store.
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