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YouTube Vanced has been discontinued, the website and download links will be taken down in the coming days. (twitter.com)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This is pretty clearly a case of Google threatening to sue, and while it's unfortunate it's pretty inevitable for something like this. Very sad :(

I assume GitHub links will also be purged soon, grab everything while you can if you're interested...

At the very least the current Vanced app should work for a while, YouTube is unlikely to need an update to work.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 years ago (2 children)

We still have newpipe

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 years ago

Newpipe rules. It's cool to have the chad PeerTube and the cringy YouTube in the same place

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 years ago (1 children)

always preferred newpipe. but also I don't use youtube too much.

Hopefully, some other mod fills the void before Vanced stops working.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Well, we still do use newpipe on Android and freetube on PC, quite a lot. There are content providers which only use youtube, given they want to reach more people. Though I haven't ever used Vanced, I'm afraid such movements might reach both newpipe and freetube, :(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago

I think NewPipe is just reading the youtube.com website, and it's not derived from the youtube app (like Vanced was) nor is it using any Youtube trademarks. It will probably be fine.

There's speculation that google dropped the hammer on Vanced because they recently announced a Vanced NFT, but I I'm not sure about that. Maybe?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

A list of alternatives: https://gist.github.com/SkyyySi/1b621c7c20ae7e0865a8ac428156c1cf (not mine, found it on reddit.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

I actually believe you should get piped... https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Idiots tried to sell NFTs, google said LOL

Newpipe is better anyway.