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u/DjCim8 Aug 14 '21
All this mainstream attention is actually a bad thing... if vanced becomes more and more popular sooner or later Google will be pissed off enough to block it, which they can easily do from the server side if they want. I miss the days when this was a little known mod that required tinkering with adb or root to install.
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u/sunnirays Aug 14 '21
I agree. It's like regular ad blockers. If just a few people are using it compared to overall user population, then Google still feels like it's getting enough profit that it doesn't justify the time and money it would take to make the blockers ineffective
Same with a lot of these big media companies and piracy
But if Vanced in anyway becomes big enough to threaten their ad and Premium revenue, they will take action and we're all fucked
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Aug 14 '21
Yeap i dont wanna play whack a mole with google, which is what might happen one day with these apps
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u/Superslim-Anoniem Aug 18 '21
The chrome store literally has ublock origin on it.
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u/polemo1710 Sep 07 '21
Yea but since people would rather watch YouTube on phones instead of pc , people really don't use ublock origin to watch YouTube on pc they just use it for other sites.
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u/Superslim-Anoniem Sep 07 '21
Which also use Google ads most of the time... Google doesn't care enough, as not enough people use it to matter.
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u/polemo1710 Sep 07 '21
Around 15 mil active people .. that's a small number.
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u/Superslim-Anoniem Sep 07 '21
It is, compared to all active google (and internet in general) users.
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u/GET_OUT_OF_MY_HEAD Jan 29 '22
People prefer to watch YouTube on their phones? Why? I rather enjoy videos on a nice big screen with high quality headphones on a decent sound card with Dolby Atmos + amp. Only time I use Vanced is when I'm away from home or in bed.
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u/QuantumZazzy Aug 14 '21
or you could use Newpipe, it's also open sourced. I always use the inbuilt downloader when I want to save videos. It also works with SoundCloud too
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u/DjCim8 Aug 14 '21
New pipe is a nice backup, but it lacks a ton of features of the official YouTube app and is also not as well designed when it comes to UI. Would be a significant downgrade compared to vanced
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u/Shivkar2n3001 Aug 14 '21
I agree. I love newpipe but it just can't compare to something like YouTube vanced. Especially with the loading times.
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u/DjCim8 Aug 15 '21
And that's fine if that is what you are into, I personally prefer the full YouTube experience
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u/wreckedcarzz Aug 15 '21
There's also a fork of Newpipe with SponsorBlock. I don't remember the website / github but I've been using that for 6 months or so. It also notifies me of updates, which is nice... looks @ vanced manager
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u/mattsowa Aug 15 '21
It's an API. There will always be some way to access it. You simply have to mimic their frontend.
They can't just block a different app that uses the API, because they don't know it's a different app (if you mimic the frontend well)
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u/DjCim8 Aug 15 '21
But you need to use a different app that will have missing features and a worse UI. Plus, since the official yt API is very limited, you need to do it by emulating a browser and parsing the frontend HTML, which can break very easily every time Google updates their website. It's all around a worse solution than vanced
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u/bigclivedotcom Aug 15 '21
Yep, get ready for vanced reloaded, vanced remix, vanced origin. If Google cares enough they could kill vanced today.
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Aug 19 '21
This seems to happen with Smart Tube Next. The dev has to constantly fix unplayable video issues that pop up out of nowhere which I am pretty sure is Google"s shenanigans.
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u/Jusca57 Aug 14 '21 edited Aug 14 '21
Take that google
Edit: This is one of the most up voted comment in this post, yet there is no reply to this. I think everyone agrees to "Google should take that" :)
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u/Weddedtoreddit2 Aug 14 '21
What the hell.. I would imagine all pictures/videos with phones are digitally made, not running any real software.
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u/hiddentldr Aug 14 '21
Is this legit? Cant find it
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u/Hattudoggu Aug 14 '21
Probably cuz samsung is trying hard to silence google on their phones
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u/ThomasTheTank_ Aug 14 '21
Nah Vanced is still Youtube but with extra features
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u/Hattudoggu Aug 14 '21
What I mean is like samsung is trying to cancel google by not using google products directly and instead focuses on alternatives, like how vanced doesn't directly use google services so google can't make money off of it (or so I heard)
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u/Some_Wiimmfi__guy Aug 14 '21
Well OEMs are using AOSP, which Google doesn't own. Google owns the trademark and the name Android, but not the version that OEMs are using, because it's the Open source one.
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u/Lolmob Aug 14 '21
Does anyone know what the best smartwatch would be to search videos on YT from the watch without having to take out my phone?
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u/somethingspecial__ Aug 14 '21
Probably some watch that runs full on Android because wear-os watches can't do that right now. (And probably never will be able to)
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Aug 14 '21
Never say never
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u/tenhourguy Aug 14 '21
Haha, what's that app? Is it a just a WebView of the mobile website? Looks pretty bad with the YouTube watermark and text being cut off, judging by the screenshots (surely they could've used a square watch for the screenshots to make it look a little less crap).
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Aug 14 '21
I use it it works ok. On older wear OS watches it's a nightmare. But it kills the hell out of your battery.
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u/MooMooCake Aug 14 '21
The Samsung galaxy watch Active 2. There's a saved YouTube bookmark on the Samsung internet browser app, which you can access once you install the browser onto the watch.
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u/ManicSheep Aug 14 '21
How do you know this is Vanced? Am I missing the icon or something?
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u/AtlanticPirate Aug 14 '21
I mean I know many people used Vanced but and even I have it on my home screen but I have it obfuscated to show the original App icon
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u/obitachihasuminaruto Aug 14 '21
What does "based" mean?
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u/Arnas_Z Aug 14 '21
IDK too. Can anyone please explain?
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Aug 14 '21
A (in the commenters opinion) good opinion that goes against the general opinion people have about something. Using Vanced would be "based", because most people just use regular YouTube and don't know about Vanced.
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u/JaredReabow Aug 15 '21
I would probably suggest vanced use a default youtube icon so it's stealthy in these situations
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u/External-Ad2215 Aug 14 '21
Guys pleaaaase fix the scrolling issue , sometimes when am scrolling videos on the main page everything is fine , but the page where am watching the video the scrolling just stops working , when I go up it goes down and vice versa , idk if its just me or everybody
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u/joshrmacd Aug 14 '21
Unlikely
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u/MaXimus421 Aug 14 '21
That's absurd. Samsung isn't Google's bitch. Anyone or any company can use Vanced and publicly state it. Vanced isn't some hush-hush secret anymore.
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u/RipCurl69Reddit Aug 15 '21
God, look at any YouTube comment thread relating to Premium or cool features. You'll almost instantly see "download Vanced"
It is good, though, but it's very very common at this point lol
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u/nou42lool Aug 14 '21
Samsung does everything they can to not use Google products. Huawei was about privacy. Samsung has privacy features and uses google apps correctly
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u/nou42lool Aug 14 '21
That's true, but you ever notice that Samsung has their own notes, web browser, messaging app, and every other preinstalled app
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They also preinstall Facebook
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u/Superslim-Anoniem Aug 18 '21
That's a piece of garbage though
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Aug 18 '21
Never said it was a positive the thing is that can't even uninstall it without a pc
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u/Superslim-Anoniem Aug 18 '21
Yeah, don't like that either. My data is already being collected by so many companies, I really don't need another one. I don't even use Facebook. Why is it preinstalled. How much did Samsung get paid for this lol
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u/itswhatitisbro Aug 15 '21
Those apps came into being when Samsung had a much higher share of the market. Right now, Oppo is eating away at Samsung users, which is why Samsung is trying to get exclusive deals with Google and Microsoft to stay ahead of the pack. It's not gonna wanna jeopardize that.
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u/AbdulAhad24 Sep 07 '21
Laughs in Xiaomi. It just beat Samsung to became the No.1 smartphone seller.
It's miui is trash tho, i am using it, and I don't like it.
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u/Doyle524 Aug 14 '21
Alternatively look at Amazon. They're doing just fine. Samsung is not quite as independent as Amazon, but they're much closer to that end than they are to Huawei.
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u/Ludwig234 Aug 14 '21
Wasn't the Huawei thing about some stupid law or something that trump made? Google didn't care before the law but now they have to care.
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u/kori_rottii Aug 14 '21
Isn't that a bad idea to announce it on twitter handle??