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Coming to you soon... (lemmy.world)
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[–] 67 points 2 years ago (6 children)

You know why it's called revanced? Because youtube came after vanced. They wont ignore it forever, unfortunately.

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  • [–] 80 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    YouTube Vanced was shut down because they tried to monetise it by releasing their own crypto NFTs, sparking Google to shut it down. I think for now Revanced is safe.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Every great project always seems to have that one dude who is like, "But what if crypto?". Really hoping we are moving past that phase.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The thing is that Revanced follows a new distribution model. Rather than distributing a modified app, they instead distribute patches for the normal YouTube APK so that the user modifies the app on their own device. Thus, ReVanced never distributes any of Google's IP. It's kinda like game modding. ReVanced will be a lot harder for Google to kill.

    The one downside for ReVanced is that it's harder for ordinary users to install, so that will limit its popularity.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Rerevanced will be popular

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Oof, one day soon, we'll all be watching torrented rips of youtube videos, like we already do TV shows.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I know if I'm not wrong vanced got in trouble for using YouTube logo and reverse engineering the YouTube app. Revanced technically not breaking any law as it not directly modifying YouTube like vanced.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but YT can change the terms, and now blocking ads, its clear they are stepping up the aggression in chasing profitability.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    they've captured as many paying customersproducts as they could under the 'old' system, so now they're trying to squeeze more cash out every other source they can.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I don't fully agree. I buy premium. As long as they keep it ad-free, it's a vote for a better business model, for platform, creator, and user alike. YT has had that option for years. Up to now, it was essentially voluntary.

    It's time to leave the ad-funded internet entirely behind us, and move to platforms like Nebula, Floatplane, Proton Mail... And yes, even YT Premium. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed they don't pull a hulu and try to double dip on both a sub and ads.

    If that happens, YT is dead to me.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I just can’t agree with the $73/month price for something I rarely if ever use. My grandson loves watching Elmo’s world on it on the tv, ads aren’t too bad yet, get like 10 mins of video before 2 30 second ads. But I refuse to pay google any money, they make enough off the android phones and all their ads they shove down your throat via websites, YouTube and google search engine

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I mean even if you pay for premium, they don't give you the option to not have shorts shoved down your throat. This is a "feature" that has been added after premium was a thing. It's also not too hard to figure out shorts are an optimized method to harvest more user data on interests.

    While I don't disagree with leaving the ad-funded internet behind us, I also don't trust Google to be a pioneer in reducing ads on the Internet— considering they're an ad delivering company above all else at this point.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    No one said we should trust a corporation to do anything, much less google. I've ditched chrome and encourage others to do the same every chance I get. But I also think Premium, YT Music, Android and Pixel, Google drive/office suite, are all reasons for google to rely less and less on their ad business.

    The challenge they now face, is the unwillingness of customers to pay. Due to google having relied on ads for so long, people are more than used to accessing their services free of charge. Just looking at the ad-block-blocking situation, they demand that they be able to do so. All the while rejecting even the ads.

    Ads will never be the long term play. Sooner or later legislation will step in, as people who actually use the internet and it's services like youtube, start getting into government.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    What are they gonna do? Revanced is just a patcher, unlike the previous version that fully distributes modified YouTube apk. There is a separate repo that has patched YouTube apk, but if that repo got taken down, the revanced manager still live on.

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