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I'm really sad I missed the boat on Vanced by one day. I'd heard about it for a long time and randomly decided to finally start using it only to find all the do

by kayson 5y ago

I'm really sad I missed the boat on Vanced by one day. I'd heard about it for a long time and randomly decided to finally start using it only to find all the download links had been removed the day before. Youtube ads have become horrendously annoying. Does anyone know if the apks can be found on any archive site?

silentsea90 5y ago
Do you subscribe to anything on the internet? Perhaps Spotify, your internet connection, Netflix? Have you considered their premium offering, or do you think YT should be free and without ads?
- DocG 5y ago
  How does your comment help? YT premium still doesn't give all the Vance's features. I can buy premium and still use Vanced for features that YouTube does not offer. Or maybe I don't support YouTube adding ads to unmonetized videos? Or is it my way to fight back, how they roll over small creators to trolls?
  - drusepth 5y ago
    I'd never heard of Vanced before today. What features did they offer that YT Premium doesn't?
    - spartanatreyu 5y ago
      Dislikes are a pretty big feature. Also sponsorblock which is a must for some people. And picture-in-picture mode was great. I could watch the news while seeing how close an uber was to me without having to switch apps.
      - charcircuit 5y ago
        btw the regular YouTube app has picture in picture. Without premium you can't use it on "music videos."
        cft 5y ago
        Only from US IP addresses
      - namdnay 5y ago
        The sponsorblock seems pretty hypocritical: “I don’t want to give money to Google”… “Actually I don’t want to give money to creators either”
        Majestic121 5y ago
        It does not seems hypocritical, because the original rationale is not "I don't want to give money to Google" but "I don't want to be subjected to ads" Whether the ads profit to Google or creators is irrelevant.
        Nextgrid 5y ago
        There's about 10 sponsors that go over and over in the channels I watch. I've seen them all and am a customer of one (from long ago - so nothing to do with their YT sponsorship) already. Nobody benefits from wasting my time showing me products/brands I already know about and already made a decision to buy or not to buy.
        detaro 5y ago
        10 feels generous already.
        kebab 5y ago
        There was already the option to scrub past it, this is just an automated system which does that for you. Really I think the sponsors know this, and put their money on targetting the market of people who are, for example, watching while eating.
    - dannyw 5y ago
      An actual pure black dark mode that’s perfect for OLEDs.
    - VPenkov 5y ago
      SponsorBlock would be one where it automagically skip ad segments that are a part of the videos. It also adds back the dislike counter. The article mentions custom swipe controls, swipe controls, and "codec features" which I'm not familiar with.
    - kozd 5y ago
      Getting rid of tiktock-est YouTube shorts or whatever they call it. Hated having that on my YouTube homepage and the official app doesn't let you remove it. YouTube Vanced does. I also pay for YouTube premium.
- mindslight 5y ago
  Personally, I avoid paying for things that could instead be provided by some appropriate software, as doing so encourages further proprietaryism. This includes services that corral communication into centralized silos. When proprietary middlemen attempt to force their desired paradigms onto us, the answer isn't to just give in and pay their Danegeld. Rather the solution is to build better software and communication infrastructure that won't get shut down by legal nastygrams.
- MMS21 5y ago
  Yes. Sent from a stolen laptop on my neighbors Wi-Fi
- coolso 5y ago
  I’m sure he’s considered it, but like many of us here, he refuses to voluntarily give Google a dime, for reasons that are obvious to most.
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  Most other services I subscribe to don't have the incentive and/or resources to be creepy and stalk me everywhere. They're happy to take my money, give me the product/service and leave it at that. YouTube's parent company both has the incentive and the resources. Giving them your real personal info (as required for payment processing) and some money on a silver platter is not an idea I'm comfortable with.
willcipriano 5y ago
Try NewPipe
- sonicggg 5y ago
  NewPipe is garbage. Vanced has that original YouTube app feel, but works even better.
  - causality0 5y ago
    Yeah. Newpipe is admirable but in practice the UX is almost sad in comparison to the real thing. Maybe in the future it will be better.
jtdressel 5y ago
I think this is it: https://apkpure.com/youtube-vanced/com.vanced.android.youtube https://apkpure.com/youtube-vanced/com.vanced.android.youtub... I have not done any level of verification.
mkdirp 5y ago
There are archives of them including checksums to ensure the files are not tampered with. I'd rather not post it here as I don't think it's allowed here, but the Vanced subreddit will have quite links.
blamazon 5y ago
YouTube premium is 12 dollars a month. For me, this is worth it to remove ads and add background play and picture-in-picture.
- dannyw 5y ago
  If you use an Indian VPN to subscribe, you can get it for about 2 usd a month.
- akmarinov 5y ago
  There are some people going around selling a year worth of YT Premium for $20, it works pretty well. You can find them on Reddit.
  - moneywoes 5y ago
    Are they just not selling accounts purchased wtih stolen credit cards?
    - cosmie 5y ago
      As another poster mentioned, YouTube Premium in India costs roughly $2 USD/month. And Premium Family (shareable with 5 accounts) is about $2.50 USD/month. So subscribing via an Indian VPN can get you Premium for roughly $20 a year. Or get a Family plan for less than $30/year, and re-selling the extra slots on Reddit for about $20 a pop will net you ~$50 USD in profit.
- Asooka 5y ago
  That's way too much, they're not making 12 dollars per month from me seeing the same 3 ads over and over.
  - blamazon 5y ago
    At the rate my time and aggravation is worth, I would be spending way more than 12 dollars a month watching the proverbial "same 3 ads" over and over.
kadoban 5y ago
Youtube in Firefox with ublock origin has no ads. Youtube premium exists as well.
denkmoon 5y ago
I mean, you could just pay to remove the ads...
- MMS21 5y ago
  That doesn't return dislikes or skip over sponsored segments.
charcircuit 5y ago
Follow this guide: https://old.reddit.com/r/Vanced/comments/tdzmgw/other_how_to_install_and_use_vanced_postshutdown/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Vanced/comments/tdzmgw/other_how_to... In the future the ReVanced project will success it.
- causality0 5y ago
  Where are you getting info about "ReVanced"?
neurostimulant 5y ago
Seems legit but I haven't checked: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/team-vanced/ https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/team-vanced/ You'll need to install both youtube vanced and vanced microg in order to make google login within vanced works.
xputer 5y ago
There is PureTuber as well. Haven't tried it yet, but from what I read it has a similar experience to Vanced.

by kayson 5y ago

silentsea90 5y ago

Do you subscribe to anything on the internet? Perhaps Spotify, your internet connection, Netflix? Have you considered their premium offering, or do you think YT should be free and without ads?

DocG 5y ago
How does your comment help? YT premium still doesn't give all the Vance's features. I can buy premium and still use Vanced for features that YouTube does not offer. Or maybe I don't support YouTube adding ads to unmonetized videos? Or is it my way to fight back, how they roll over small creators to trolls?
- drusepth 5y ago
  I'd never heard of Vanced before today. What features did they offer that YT Premium doesn't?
  - spartanatreyu 5y ago
    Dislikes are a pretty big feature. Also sponsorblock which is a must for some people. And picture-in-picture mode was great. I could watch the news while seeing how close an uber was to me without having to switch apps.
    - charcircuit 5y ago
      btw the regular YouTube app has picture in picture. Without premium you can't use it on "music videos."
      - cft 5y ago
        Only from US IP addresses
    - namdnay 5y ago
      The sponsorblock seems pretty hypocritical: “I don’t want to give money to Google”… “Actually I don’t want to give money to creators either”
      - Majestic121 5y ago
        It does not seems hypocritical, because the original rationale is not "I don't want to give money to Google" but "I don't want to be subjected to ads" Whether the ads profit to Google or creators is irrelevant.
      - Nextgrid 5y ago
        There's about 10 sponsors that go over and over in the channels I watch. I've seen them all and am a customer of one (from long ago - so nothing to do with their YT sponsorship) already. Nobody benefits from wasting my time showing me products/brands I already know about and already made a decision to buy or not to buy.
        detaro 5y ago
        10 feels generous already.
      - kebab 5y ago
        There was already the option to scrub past it, this is just an automated system which does that for you. Really I think the sponsors know this, and put their money on targetting the market of people who are, for example, watching while eating.
  - dannyw 5y ago
    An actual pure black dark mode that’s perfect for OLEDs.
  - VPenkov 5y ago
    SponsorBlock would be one where it automagically skip ad segments that are a part of the videos. It also adds back the dislike counter. The article mentions custom swipe controls, swipe controls, and "codec features" which I'm not familiar with.
  - kozd 5y ago
    Getting rid of tiktock-est YouTube shorts or whatever they call it. Hated having that on my YouTube homepage and the official app doesn't let you remove it. YouTube Vanced does. I also pay for YouTube premium.
mindslight 5y ago
Personally, I avoid paying for things that could instead be provided by some appropriate software, as doing so encourages further proprietaryism. This includes services that corral communication into centralized silos. When proprietary middlemen attempt to force their desired paradigms onto us, the answer isn't to just give in and pay their Danegeld. Rather the solution is to build better software and communication infrastructure that won't get shut down by legal nastygrams.
MMS21 5y ago
Yes. Sent from a stolen laptop on my neighbors Wi-Fi
coolso 5y ago
I’m sure he’s considered it, but like many of us here, he refuses to voluntarily give Google a dime, for reasons that are obvious to most.
Nextgrid 5y ago
Most other services I subscribe to don't have the incentive and/or resources to be creepy and stalk me everywhere. They're happy to take my money, give me the product/service and leave it at that. YouTube's parent company both has the incentive and the resources. Giving them your real personal info (as required for payment processing) and some money on a silver platter is not an idea I'm comfortable with.

willcipriano 5y ago

Try NewPipe

sonicggg 5y ago
NewPipe is garbage. Vanced has that original YouTube app feel, but works even better.
- causality0 5y ago
  Yeah. Newpipe is admirable but in practice the UX is almost sad in comparison to the real thing. Maybe in the future it will be better.

jtdressel 5y ago

I think this is it: https://apkpure.com/youtube-vanced/com.vanced.android.youtube https://apkpure.com/youtube-vanced/com.vanced.android.youtub... I have not done any level of verification.

mkdirp 5y ago

There are archives of them including checksums to ensure the files are not tampered with. I'd rather not post it here as I don't think it's allowed here, but the Vanced subreddit will have quite links.

blamazon 5y ago

YouTube premium is 12 dollars a month. For me, this is worth it to remove ads and add background play and picture-in-picture.

dannyw 5y ago
If you use an Indian VPN to subscribe, you can get it for about 2 usd a month.
akmarinov 5y ago
There are some people going around selling a year worth of YT Premium for $20, it works pretty well. You can find them on Reddit.
- moneywoes 5y ago
  Are they just not selling accounts purchased wtih stolen credit cards?
  - cosmie 5y ago
    As another poster mentioned, YouTube Premium in India costs roughly $2 USD/month. And Premium Family (shareable with 5 accounts) is about $2.50 USD/month. So subscribing via an Indian VPN can get you Premium for roughly $20 a year. Or get a Family plan for less than $30/year, and re-selling the extra slots on Reddit for about $20 a pop will net you ~$50 USD in profit.
Asooka 5y ago
That's way too much, they're not making 12 dollars per month from me seeing the same 3 ads over and over.
- blamazon 5y ago
  At the rate my time and aggravation is worth, I would be spending way more than 12 dollars a month watching the proverbial "same 3 ads" over and over.

kadoban 5y ago

Youtube in Firefox with ublock origin has no ads. Youtube premium exists as well.

denkmoon 5y ago

I mean, you could just pay to remove the ads...

MMS21 5y ago
That doesn't return dislikes or skip over sponsored segments.

charcircuit 5y ago

Follow this guide: https://old.reddit.com/r/Vanced/comments/tdzmgw/other_how_to_install_and_use_vanced_postshutdown/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Vanced/comments/tdzmgw/other_how_to... In the future the ReVanced project will success it.

causality0 5y ago
Where are you getting info about "ReVanced"?

neurostimulant 5y ago

Seems legit but I haven't checked: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/team-vanced/ https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/team-vanced/ You'll need to install both youtube vanced and vanced microg in order to make google login within vanced works.

xputer 5y ago

There is PureTuber as well. Haven't tried it yet, but from what I read it has a similar experience to Vanced.