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Vanced has been discontinued
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Re: Vanced has been discontinued
#22Surprised it took so long to be honest. It was so good and unlike with other youtube alternative clients, you basically had almost 1:1 feature parity over the official app. Plus you had the option to disable almost all the recent UI changes easily and a sponsorblock integration.
It was much much more of a threat to Google than newpipe or less "normie" friendly alt clients, and it was getting too popular for it's own good. I'm wondering if the current Vance releases will keep working for a while, or if Google will try to target those too by breaking something in their backend.
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#23Would it be possible to use it if the source code is forked?
Vanced was not open source, supposedly to avoid angering Google by openly sharing the mod. Not sure how that makes sense though now that I think about it
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry to shit on this, but NewPipe sucks. In my experience it's a waste of time to try and use it as a YT client replacement. It barely works, if at all. Casting definitely never ever worked for me, not even once. The user experience is unfamiliar and seems significantly worse than Vanced. Vanced is what the official youbutt app should've been. RIP.
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Maybe but Vanced was undeniably easier to use and transition to if you were used to the official app. I knew totally tech illiterate people using the app specifically because there was 0 difference with the official app. Once they just got it installed by someone they knew everything just worked and it was easy to update. Very very different from newpipe, which barely even has support for basic features like subscriptions.
Re: Vanced has been discontinued
#25Surprised it took so long to be honest. It was so good and unlike with other youtube alternative clients, you basically had almost 1:1 feature parity over the official app. Plus you had the option to disable almost all the recent UI changes easily and a sponsorblock integration. It was much much more of a threat to Google than newpipe or less "normie" friendly alt clients, and it was getting too popular for it's own…
I was under the impression that Vanced was a cracked version of the official app. If that was the case then they deserve to be sued.
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#26https://twitter.com/YTVanced/status/1503083904047194116
What even...did Google force them to Tweet this or is it a joke?
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#28Dammit I knew this would happen after it hit the top of HN. RIP Vanced, you were the best Youtube experience bar none.
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#29https://twitter.com/YTVanced/status/1503083904047194116 What even...did Google force them to Tweet this or is it a joke?
Probably
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#30Dammit I knew this would happen after it hit the top of HN. RIP Vanced, you were the best Youtube experience bar none.
NewPipe is next.