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To make it clear, personal opinion: this is piracy. Use yt-dlp, NewPipe, SmartTubeNext, invidious, VLC, whatever. Or pay for Premium. But re-using a proprietar
by Aissen 5y ago
To make it clear, personal opinion: this is piracy. Use yt-dlp, NewPipe, SmartTubeNext, invidious, VLC, whatever. Or pay for Premium.
But re-using a proprietary app and patching it is IMHO crossing the line.
- judge2020 5y agoIt's at least 'profiteering' off of the current state of YouTube, where anyone that uses an ad-blocking mechanism (desktop or mobile) is effectively being subsidized by the premium subscribers and mobile users without adblock.
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agoprofiteering is earning. what are the devs of vanced earning?
- judge2020 5y agoI mean the users using any ad blocking mechanism, including (re)vanced or simply ublock origin. YouTube isn't free for Google to host.
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agothat is not same as profiteering. leeching maybe but "profiteering" is what brave does with replacing google ads with their own so that they show their ads and earn instead of google. that is not what anyone with ad block is doing.. nothing in life is free. everyone knows that. you and me know that. we use adblock regardless of that knowledge. how is this argument used against vanced now since we have accepted the necessity for ublock orign?
- kaba0 5y agoAlso, it’s not like youtube isn’t popular exactly due to the freely generated content on it, not in spite of their hosting costs.
- lern_too_spel 5y agoIf they're not distributing the patched application, I don't see why this is any worse than using an unauthorized YouTube client.
- mdoms 5y agoThey were distributing it.
- lern_too_spel 5y agoRevanced is not distributing it. Aissen said this is piracy, not Vanced.
- Aissen 5y agoAgreed, I was talking about Vanced, my comment wasn't clear. Revanced is a bit more gray, but still very dark.