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Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by Lammy »

adithyassekhar wrote: post #6
fuckcensorship wrote: post #2

NewPipe [1] is an open-source alternative, although latest versions of Vanced will supposedly keep working for the foreseeable future [2]. [1]: https://newpipe.net/ [2]: https://nitter.net/YTVanced/status/1503055442506915846#m

The official NewPipe client hasn't added support for sponsorblock, but there's a fork by polymorphicshade on GitHub. I can't add links because new account.

Got you https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

Easily installable through F-Droid by adding this repo: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.polymorphicshad...

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by enriquto »

izacus wrote: post #77
nextaccountic wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the source for the hacks could be made open, so that other people could work on it.

How would that (legally and technically) work exactly? And how would you defend even the hacks themselves against DMCA?

Just upload the thing to a Russian server.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by spartanatreyu »

indigodaddy wrote: post #75

I pay for YTM, so haven’t ever tried any of these Adblocking things for YT. I think $10/mo is pretty decent for a music service and also the removal of all ads from YT (which includes their fairly decent library of free movies that would be ad-supported without YTM/YTP)

It's $15 a month here.

I don't think I can happily pay $0.50 every day just to be able to keep listening to the news after I push the lock button on my phone.

I'd be happy to support youtube if they actually supported their community and content creators, but right now, my opinion on youtube itself is that it's hostile to anyone who needs to use it.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by deworms »

indigodaddy wrote: post #75

I pay for YTM, so haven’t ever tried any of these Adblocking things for YT. I think $10/mo is pretty decent for a music service and also the removal of all ads from YT (which includes their fairly decent library of free movies that would be ad-supported without YTM/YTP)

Financially supporting Google is the last thing I want to do. I'd rather flush the money down the toilet than pay for Youtube.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by oh_sigh »

metadat wrote: post #92
CPAhem wrote: post #62

For those who have the ability to do so, please make an Archive of all the Vanced Versions before the download links are taken down https://mirror.codebucket.de/vanced/

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How does one differentiate between a service being greedy, and a service simply not operating as charity?

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by galangalalgol »

metadat wrote: post #92
CPAhem wrote: post #62

For those who have the ability to do so, please make an Archive of all the Vanced Versions before the download links are taken down https://mirror.codebucket.de/vanced/

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I always watch YT in firefox with ublock origin on, it seems to work 100%. It seems like pi-hole would work well too, but my router insists on providing a backup dns server when my pihole fails to find something... Need to go get a new one, preferably meshable.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by chrysoprace »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #107
chrysoprace wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As others have noted, NewPipe lacks a lot of functionality, polish, and just generally breaks far too frequently. I'm in the tech industry so I can deal with the app breaking occasionally, but during my stint using it, it was almost every month that it broke. My girlfriend who has some technical knowledge just gave up on it because it was too frustrating that it kept breaking, and not only that, the devs urged users…

You have to update it every quarter or so when yt breaks it. Never had any other issues.

I'm glad to hear your experience has been pleasant - ours has been far from it. Imagine telling someone who perhaps doesn't know what an "executible" is, to just allow unknown apps and go to a website and download a different app store (F-Droid), then go to that app store and download a third party app. Then when it breaks, tell them to go to GitHub and download another unknown app because the version on F-Droid gets updated too slowly when they just want to watch a video.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by jeroenhd »

izacus wrote: post #77
nextaccountic wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the source for the hacks could be made open, so that other people could work on it.

How would that (legally and technically) work exactly? And how would you defend even the hacks themselves against DMCA?

The lines of code that were generated are copyrighted by the person who wrote them, so they probably can't be DMCA'd easily. The offsets (and possibly the algorithm for finding those offsets) are harder to protect, of course.

The problem, of course, is that bogus DMCA claims are enough to take down a repository, and protesting those DMCA claims will dox you to the big tech companies.

Every time a project like this goes down, I feel more like there should be some kind of Gitea server hosted on a hidden service where "illegal" projects like these can be developed.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by MMS21 »

eins1234 wrote: post #96
rahidz wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also pay for Youtube Music/YT, but I exclusively use Vanced on my phone, as it integrates with Sponsorblock, locks in a set quality setting (unlike the actual YT app which keeps kicking me to 480p when it feels like it), removes a lot of the cruft on the home page, and as of recently shows downvotes.

Wow, how did I just find out about Sponsorblock? That makes this news even sadder. :(

SponsorBlock is it’s own thing separate of Vanced.

https://sponsor.ajay.app/

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