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Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by mixmastamyk »

chrysoprace wrote: post #117
mixmastamyk wrote: post #107

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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…

I go to its page and click a button, then another to confirm. Definitely doable, if you're motivated.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by NotPractical »

Does anyone know on what grounds Google was able to do this? I'm assuming copyright infringement, because Vanced was distributing modified YouTube APK files, which are copyrighted. If so, could they not simply release an APK patching tool or something, instead of the APK files directly?

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by anaganisk »

unixhero wrote: post #277
rg111 wrote: post #227

I had stopped using Vanced a few weeks back, because I couldn’t download videos beyond 360p. Now I know about Newpipe, but I manually download some videos with youtube-dl and then Syncthing them to my cell phone. Then watch it with VLC. It works perfectly fine for me. Btw, I think they had to stop because they tried to profit from it. I dislike them for it. Apparently they tried to mint NFTs [0]. Later they said it w…

You do this for every casual video you watch?

Thats sound too exhaustive to watch a 3 min video

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by anaganisk »

sonicggg wrote: post #39

That's disappointing. I was in awe on how much better an alternative modded app was, when compared to the official one from Google, which supposedly has the "best" developers working on it.

Their best developers are employed to make money for the company by shoving more ads and gathering more insight on you, google ain’t a charity.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by [deleted] »

detritus wrote: post #388
Semaphor wrote: post #332

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> e.g. 'two' instead of 'too' Oh wow. So, is this a common thing? When I type without thinking about it too much, and with my typing not being able to keep up with my brain, I tend to make those errors a lot. But I thought it was just me being dumb and not some general thing that happens to people.

*hand up here I also sometimes put in an entirely incorrect word that is vaguely like the one I intended, with amalgamated hints of a neighbouring word, usually the one after. My brain just melds them together. Sometimes I read what I write and wonder how on Earth I can be such an idiot. Blessed are those times I catch such fuckwittery before posting. - ed the its/it's one is really annoying though, because of course…

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Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by Semaphor »

detritus wrote: post #388
Semaphor wrote: post #332

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> e.g. 'two' instead of 'too' Oh wow. So, is this a common thing? When I type without thinking about it too much, and with my typing not being able to keep up with my brain, I tend to make those errors a lot. But I thought it was just me being dumb and not some general thing that happens to people.

*hand up here I also sometimes put in an entirely incorrect word that is vaguely like the one I intended, with amalgamated hints of a neighbouring word, usually the one after. My brain just melds them together. Sometimes I read what I write and wonder how on Earth I can be such an idiot. Blessed are those times I catch such fuckwittery before posting. - ed the its/it's one is really annoying though, because of course…

Funnily enough, I never have that issue with its/it's. Maybe because I’m not a native speaker and sometimes actually confuse them until my spellchecker reminds me ;)

And yeah, I sometimes created melded words as well. I wonder if there’s a name for our issue.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by Push_to_master »

matyasrichter wrote: post #336
samgtx wrote: post #110

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I knew that post was a mistake as soon as I saw it.

It's not like Vanced got taken down because of a HN post...

I can confirm that vanced had Google/YT eyes on it for many years now, or at least that someone I know on the Ad abuse team at Google was talking about them finding ways to stop vanced for years now.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by rg111 »

unixhero wrote: post #277
rg111 wrote: post #227

I had stopped using Vanced a few weeks back, because I couldn’t download videos beyond 360p. Now I know about Newpipe, but I manually download some videos with youtube-dl and then Syncthing them to my cell phone. Then watch it with VLC. It works perfectly fine for me. Btw, I think they had to stop because they tried to profit from it. I dislike them for it. Apparently they tried to mint NFTs [0]. Later they said it w…

You do this for every casual video you watch?

Oh no.

Tech conference talks, (potentially) deep podcast episodes, lecture videos of a topic I am learning, 45 minutes Chopin prelude "jukebox", etc.

Anything that I think could be very interesting or I had preplanned- beyond 15 minutes- is what I do it for.

My internet connection is very good. But the battery consumption is too high when streaming 1080p/2k. I have became a quality snob now and cannot watch lower resolution videos when there are higher ones available.

I also want to avoid ads (I support indie-type YouTubes by buying Patreon subscription and merches, too, if they are innovative). I hate the too-shiny YT interface, too.

I now just watch 1080p/2k videos in peace from VLC with my wifi/data turned off.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by hunter2_ »

tpxl wrote: post #281
netr0ute wrote: post #229

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What I do is set a reverse NAT rule that reverse proxies 8.8.8.8 to my DNS, so to devices where it's hardcoded, they can't tell the difference.

You can also redirect all port 53 traffic to your DNS instead of redirecting IPs one by one.

Brilliant. I'll be trying that on pfsense [0] soon.

[0] https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/dns-redir...

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