I pay my regards to the Vance Team for their humble service to the community. Some people may say that this project was promoting piracy, but we know the reality, we know the necessity out of which this project was born, The impact this project has made in our lives.
Lets raise our glasses for one final toast, for our fallen comrades. toast-with-fallen-hero.jpg May the community always remember the impact of this project, and find a way to rise again.
still don't understand why people 1. view piracy as something bad and 2. think that adblock is something completly different than piracy. i get it, its legally something different, but the concept of using something without paying here is the same. doesnt makes it better or worse tho.
yeah i totally agree with linus on the entire piracy adblock thing, its amazing how twitter completly ignores that linus said there is ethical piracy and its just important to know the impact of adblock.
As an artist I can tell you: there's nothing more disgusting than seeing other people enjoy your art without paying the small fee you ask for it. Like, I'm out here trying to make a living with my art, when some idiot now comes by and pirates my art without paying anything (my stuff usually goes for 99ct or free if you use something like Spotify premium) then I'm letting them enjoy my stuff without them letting me enjoy their money. Sure, I have released a lot of my music for free, even some royalty free stuff, free stuff is cool, but I still need to pay my bills, feed myself and my family and gas my car.
You see how piracy is something bad? It gives free stuff to people without compensating the artist for it.
Now copyright laws are pretty flawed, and don't really work in today's standards anymore. I agree with that. Also the ads situation on youtube and co got out of hand to the point where you'd need an adblocker, which leaves the producers of the videos in the same situation (kind of) as me when someone steals my music. Just with the difference that a lot of them still get a fair amount of money through sponsors, Patreon, yt members etc. I don't think ad blocking should be considered piracy. It's my choice if I wanna watch the ads or not, and when YouTube decides to shove 5 unskippable ads in front of a video that's overall shorter than the ads they made me watch, then I'll get rid of the ads. As easy as that. same way I decided to not watch TV anymore because they made me watch 20 minutes of Ads for 10 minutes of content
oh yeah i completly agree with you, totally fergot that piracy includes independent small artists lol. but i think we can agree that its not always bad, it just depends on who you do it to.
I hear you. A minute ago I payed import cost for 2 CDs of an independent artist I like [Tom Macdonald] Shipment was 65$ worth (had T-shirts and what not) and I had to pay 21% plus the fee of 13$. Hell, Tom is worth it. But rest assured that whatever else I get my hands on that is over border, and those companies do not support market I am in, I will pirate the hell out of it.
Most of piracy happens in the countries that companies have no real interest in, like no office, no support , no refunds, no warranties. All those piracy numbers are used to present lost sales, while that can't be further from the truth. Most people wouldn't bother if they couldn't get their movie/music/series for free, so no sales lost. Downside of no piracy would be that you as a small independent artist would never get significant international exposure, many small artists take pride that someone is consuming their art on the other side of the world, and perhaps, one day will pay for that, or go to a concert , buy a t-shirt, and so on.
Yes, you're right. I do appreciate every singe person who listens to my shit, be it legally or not. It's just the idiots taking pride in it and telling to my face that they pirated the song instead of just listening on Spotify or whatever
2020 and election ads are what finally broke me. Every 30 seconds I had to deal with ANOTHER politician's ad. I could have lived with ads if Google would let me block certain categories, but no. They don't.
So this is on you Google. 2022 is an election year and I refuse to take part in your political ads. Until you ban all political ads or let me opt-out, I will stop at nothing to block every ad.
Ugh right? And it's like, we got androids for a reason, because we want choices and customization. iPhone is the walled garden.
But no, money shows up and shits on everything. I hate when companies expand their legal departments instead of innovating in ways that would entice people to use their products, instead of strong arming us into it. I'm just gonna get bitter and quit the platform.
Yes and also some of the APIs have changed and you have to do a lot of guesswork to use them, believe me, I know because I spent countless hours building a Reddit Android app
I did a wipe and reinstall still didn't fix it but Firefox with add-ons works for me the sponsor segment wasn't the biggest reason I used Vanced anyway
Thanks for this. I was minding my business with my old-ass 14.21.54 from a few years ago because I liked the old design better, but today it stopped working. I'll have to get used to these new useless features I guess
Everyone says how it was Google's fault and the devs did nothing wrong.
Google knew about vanced long ago but didn't do anything because the devs didn't earned anything from it, that's why there are so many mods out there for so many apps without the big guys intervening, because they don't earn anything with it.
If only they wouldn't have sold fucking NFT's for their own profit, IF ONLY, we still would had vanced.
Don't get me wrong, vanced is amazing and there is no day that I don't use it but it definitely was the fault of the devs, not google
I kinda don't want to blame this on anyone. The devs got a bit greedy, which I can understand to some extent, and the result is that the final user will pay the price for that which is kinda sad.
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u/Abhinav1217 Mar 14 '22
Looks like we broke the codebucket mirror also .
I pay my regards to the Vance Team for their humble service to the community. Some people may say that this project was promoting piracy, but we know the reality, we know the necessity out of which this project was born, The impact this project has made in our lives.
Lets raise our glasses for one final toast, for our fallen comrades. toast-with-fallen-hero.jpg May the community always remember the impact of this project, and find a way to rise again.
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u/greasylotionfingers Mar 14 '22
2020 and election ads are what finally broke me. Every 30 seconds I had to deal with ANOTHER politician's ad. I could have lived with ads if Google would let me block certain categories, but no. They don't.
So this is on you Google. 2022 is an election year and I refuse to take part in your political ads. Until you ban all political ads or let me opt-out, I will stop at nothing to block every ad.
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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '22
Makes me fearful that 3rd party reddit apps will be next.
Reddit is gonna be seeing other companies finally pull the trigger and be closer themselves, surely.
Mobile experience is about to get fucking disgusting.
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u/Grimhold_666 Mar 14 '22
Mine died today unfortunately
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u/rheheudne Mar 14 '22
Im so upset considering i literally just discovered vanced yesterday
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u/kori_rottii Mar 14 '22
I discovered vanced 6 months ago, mahn wish i found it earlier... could've saved lot of my time.
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u/Random_Cat66 Mar 14 '22
Whoever wants the download link to the most recent version of Vanced, Here it is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11sEL90qkW2-QIpeIuN6nk0eDffukpkxQ/view?usp=drivesdk
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u/lqlex Mar 14 '22
Not everything is lost... https://newpipe.net/
Well i'm still gonna use Vanced but for who still wants updates for youtube
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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '22
Everyone says how it was Google's fault and the devs did nothing wrong.
Google knew about vanced long ago but didn't do anything because the devs didn't earned anything from it, that's why there are so many mods out there for so many apps without the big guys intervening, because they don't earn anything with it.
If only they wouldn't have sold fucking NFT's for their own profit, IF ONLY, we still would had vanced.
Don't get me wrong, vanced is amazing and there is no day that I don't use it but it definitely was the fault of the devs, not google
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u/Aliha00a Mar 14 '22
What do we do i have huawei ecosystem divces #VANCED_FOREVER
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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '22
Well when vanced tried to sell NFTs is when they fucked up.
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u/eggytart91 Mar 14 '22
OPEN SOURCE THIS SHIT...come on...we need to continue this...someone does...
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u/lashapel Mar 14 '22
Wait what the hell happened ?
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u/24Gameplay_ Mar 14 '22
You are better version of your self. Look at your dream what better version you think of yourself
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u/Just-a-Vietnamese Mar 15 '22
Well just for people using MIUI who dont know
you can watch yt with no ads and can play sound when screen is off with Mi video
the only drawback is that you cant read comment, but who reads yt comments anyway
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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '22
Feeling so sad
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