Google goes after YouTube Vanced with C&D, project to be discontinued

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YouTube Vanced will be shutting down, after legal threat. The popular app is being discontinued after years of being available on the Android platform. Released first in 2018, YouTube Vanced is a sideloadable Android app that allows users to block ads, skip sponsored content, use a dark theme layout, and other useful tweaks, including bringing back the recently removed dislike button, bypassing the need for YouTube Premium. That combined with its popularity is likely why Google went after the project, serving them with a cease and desist. The Vanced team announced that due to "legal reasons", they'll be removing links to download the app from their website, and work on the project will be discontinued.

Existing installs of YouTube Vanced should still work for the foreseeable future, until Google makes significant changes to YouTube that would render the app useless.

 

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Some of y'all people here are far too emotionally upset with google, chill.
Cussing about google and stuff, but meanwhile YouTube is literately free and you don't have to pay a dime to watch videos on it?
I'm sorry but that's dumb
Some want to have the cookie and eat it too.
 
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Good for YouTube! So many pathetic whiny people here thinking they are entitled. Concern yourselves less about YouTube ads & more about the big picture. YouTube are in bed with the US government. YouTube are silencing people that have different views. YouTube are pushing fake news, propaganda etc. YouTube are collecting data from each & everyone of you. YouTube are profiting from this data. YouTube are using this data to make a list. If you view anything that does not support the corrupt political party in power in USA, you are added to this list & you are viewed as a potential threat. Time to wake up & stop being idiotic gullible little sheep.
 

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Why don't they let Russia or China "where Google doesn't interfere" take over the code.
I hate youtube annoying ads.
 

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I know Google HQ office is coming to my town!! I HATE YOU SO MUCH!!!! NOW.

years ago, you promised not to censor! you broke your fucking promise.

SHAME ON YOU.
You really believe in the guarantees the capitalists give you?
Really?
 

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Time to switch to using Firefox with ad block + sponsorblock addons installed...

Seriously not paying the amount they charge for premium as at that price it's just daylight robbery.
Even Disney+ is cheaper. And the worst thing is, a YouTube premium subscription is more expensive on iPhones than on Android phones.

I would pay 3 - 5 bucks to get rid of ads but not 15.

Edit: it’s 15,99€ on iOS!!
 
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I have been using Vanced, NewPipe, uBlock etc. for a very long time, and haven't seen a single YouTube ad for years. Last week I visited a friend of mine, who has purchased a new TV which also has a YouTube app preinstalled. He wanted to show me some videos on YouTube and my fucking goodness, has this platform become a fucking shithole. Every fucking video launches with an ad that's subjectively is as long as the fucking video itself. It's absolutely unusable without an ad blocker at this point.
The day where I'm not gonna be able to block ads on YouTube, is the day where I'll leave YouTube forever. And no, I'm not gonna pay those prices for premium.
It was even worse back in 2010/11. they had autoplaying ads back then, little videos that were embedded next to the video you were watching. My poor old win xp computer would always freeze because of these lousy autoplay ads. And they were obnoxiously loud too.
 
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i mean, what the fuck do you do with a cookie/cake if you can't eat it? this analogy was always so stupid to me
If you eat it, it's gone. But if you can eat it and also have the cookie not going away. It's the best out come. But it's impossible.
 

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Good for YouTube! So many pathetic whiny people here thinking they are entitled. Concern yourselves less about YouTube ads & more about the big picture. YouTube are in bed with the US government. YouTube are silencing people that have different views. YouTube are pushing fake news, propaganda etc. YouTube are collecting data from each & everyone of you. YouTube are profiting from this data. YouTube are using this data to make a list. If you view anything that does not support the corrupt political party in power in USA, you are added to this list & you are viewed as a potential threat. Time to wake up & stop being idiotic gullible little sheep.

Good thing we have a special agent of your caliber to help us lmao
 

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YouTube are silencing people that have different views. YouTube are pushing fake news, propaganda etc.

No big gubermant overreach against American companies and they should be able to ReFusE service to anyone because this is America and free eunterprise county and they can handle their businesses how they like eit...

...unless you're silencing muh views. Then it's censurshup and there should be regulashun /s


"Why would anyone want to donate to Ukrainian armed forces? They're literally neo Nazis.... "

"Putin was 100% correct to invade & destroy Ukraine"

Holy fucking shit....you mean this view of being apologetic towards literal genocide is being silenced? I'm shocked /s
 
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Yeah but you won't get dislikes back, or the sexy dark mode in Vanced. Plus, Mozilla (Firefox Company) has become as evil as Google. It's best you use a mobile fork like IceRaven https://iceraven-browser.en.uptodown.com/android/versions
I've switched Android browsers many times which always sucks since there's rarely a desirable way to transfer the bookmarks and passwords. Iceraven is what I'm currently using though and is the best compromise for both privacy and functionality so far. It's not on F-Droid, but you can still have FFUpdater automatically check for updates.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/
 

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I've switched Android browsers many times which always sucks since there's rarely a desirable way to transfer the bookmarks and passwords. Iceraven is what I'm currently using though and is the best compromise for both privacy and functionality so far. It's not on F-Droid, but you can still have FFUpdater automatically check for updates.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/
Unfortunately it still keeps Pocket articles :/
 
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it has sponsorblock and return youtube dislike... so no youtube vanced wasn't only for filthy pirates, alphabet.
If only big corporation worked to add features instead of removing them.
Yes because I'm sure those are features google wants people using.
 
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YouTube Vanced will be shutting down, after legal threat. The popular app is being discontinued after years of being available on the Android platform. Released first in 2018, YouTube Vanced is a sideloadable Android app that allows users to block ads, skip sponsored content, use a dark theme layout, and other useful tweaks, including bringing back the recently removed dislike button, bypassing the need for YouTube Premium. That combined with its popularity is likely why Google went after the project, serving them with a cease and desist. The Vanced team announced that due to "legal reasons", they'll be removing links to download the app from their website, and work on the project will be discontinued.

Existing installs of YouTube Vanced should still work for the foreseeable future, until Google makes significant changes to YouTube that would render the app useless.

rest in peace vanced, you will forever be in my heart, and in my use
 

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What are you going for instead?
Dailymotion, vimeo and metacafe are basically zombies at this point -- only reason I might have visited them in years now is because they are archives of some things that youtube might have pinged. Most of the external services like blip (powered thatguywiththeglasses at one point) and gametrailers are long gone, though I am sort of seeing the rise of if not the content partner networks then more dedicated stuff that youtube neuters.

Twitch for now does OK at streaming but streaming is not tightly edited, scripted and produced works so... yeah.

This leaves the likes of bitchute, rumble and odysee/lbry (which still have an interesting lawsuit hanging over their heads) for long form stuff. These will invariably be tarred with the "OMG right wing" brush, mostly because such types will probably be those to embrace it if you go in for free speech and they have had lives made hard on youtube (the left wing set that had life made hard on youtube, which is no small amount either -- copyright, sexual and sensitive history/questioning narratives bothering them as much as those that don't care for woke stuff, then not likely to make the switch to such things for various reasons like pushback from their community if not things they find distasteful themselves and there generally being no equivalents for them). This also means advertising (for better or worse it is a draw for those making content) which is passive as well (I am sure tshirts and ebegging sites make up a notable component for some but... yeah) or achieving some kind of critical mass (and youtube has been going long enough now that legacy content is a big concern there, though a few offer to mirror things or upload to multiple sites) and big boy commercial backers is more dubious unless youtube really lifts its head up high and blows its brains out (a possibility, especially with its current political aspirations, dubious copyright ideas and puritanical bent that makes even the TV channels that it left bleeding look outlandish).
Tiktok and instagram for short form content/basically porn that is not technically porn -- do you particularly envisage going there for gaming content, anything engineering/fixing/building, film criticism, in depth history, comedy or the like? Facebook for marketing and pirated versions of a few bigger sources. Not to mention they are operating on basically the same rule set as youtube, just maybe a few months behind or with a notable exception (tiktok is tinder for paedophiles being a somewhat apt take I saw a while back, and most that pay any attention will note instagram as a dating application that is not explicitly a dating application). Reddit would probably also go the same way if they included a video option tomorrow.
Anything non English then mostly being good for pirating films and TV shows, and maybe some dodging of the "not technically sexually explicit", not to mention a good chunk of those that do general content are in Russia (vk.com being a social media site kind of but with serious video aspects and yandex.ru being a search engine while you can if you want to try something out) so oh well.
Some that might have branched out to bitchute, rumble and obysee/lbry have also found some success hosting on porn sites (they generally take the stance of advertisers already hate us, want to put your gun videos or political commentary on here then go right ahead) but not likely to go mainstream with that one.

Bandwidth and storage seem to have reached a point where it is viable.

To that end while I would love to ditch youtube then I am not sure what (single or collective) really would serve as an alternative in the short-medium term if I am going in for more than news and political commentary, game/film/tv/comic criticism. Might involve going in for the RSS or bookmarks and a copy of youtube-dl (not sure if it exists as an easy install for mobile phones) for the time being.
I honestly don't know because there's not anything quite like it for reasons you've already mentioned but I find myself scrolling YouTube rather uninterested these days anyways.

It just seems like another thing I need to get away from. I may just be losing my mind but it seems a lot of content creators are "samey" these days and they're not hooking me. Too much ads, too much bullshit.

Maybe I need a cabin on a mountain or something. I'll play shitty NES games with solar until I die or something, I dunno! :D

The web seems too consolidated overall and as a result it's nearly impossible for alternatives to emerge... And even when they begin to they're just gobbled up by the big boys and their endless supply of money.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go wrap my head in foil and wait for the aliens to arrive.
 

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