Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by wand3r on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:40PM (#30445348)

I dont use vanced but I am looking into it. Allegedly vanced has an iOS alternative. My reasoning is that Google is disgusting and has created a defacto monopoly. There is no way to outcompete a free product at scale so there basically can’t be an alternative. So I obviously use video and that means I use youtube. I dont want to support google, never want to see an ad and I honestly don’t care about the creator. If i did find someone who I regularly watched I would probably support them directly. I would never want to use youtube premium and infact constantly being bombarded by ads for youtube premium is a major reason i use an adblocker…

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by endisneigh on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:43PM (#30445390)

> I honestly don’t care about the creator.

At least you’re honest

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by Teever on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:56PM (#30445552)

A very important life rule is to never, ever care about someone more than they care about you.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by tomComb on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:04PM (#30445664)

So much for everyone less fortunate than you. The vast majority of the people in the world are much less fortunate than the average HN reader. And yes, they are probably not worrying about us, but a little consideration for them in how we vote or how we donate could make a big difference.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by bduerst on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:44PM (#30446173)

This rule creates a negative feedback loop to a world where every single person cares about no one else.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by Teever on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:58PM (#30446355)

As opposed to some Woodstock hippy utopia where everyone cares so much for everyone else that love conquers all?

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by bduerst on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:00PM (#30446379)

How is that the only alternative?

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by stjohnswarts on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:39PM (#30447573)

I don't if they're saying other people shouldn't have a different take on life. I prefer to actually have a certain level of respect and care for my fellow humans. It's is dwarfed by my concern for myself and my family, but yeah I'm gonna bend down and give someone a hand if they drop something or need a push off the road or battery jump.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by pjerem on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:29PM (#30445998)

I don’t see creators as "someone" because creators are mostly little business and the person you see on the video is just acting and reading a script.

So I can treat them as things. And I do care for the things I enjoy in life when I want them to stay or improve. Not because of the person behind (because, you are right, they don’t know me and I don’t know them) but because I care about what their work bring to my life.

The fact that someone is being able to make a decent revenue for this work is a nice externality that I like. But having great knowledge / content freely accessible is what I care.

However I’m not paying for YouTube Premium because I care about the content and not the platform. It wouldn’t make a difference for me if I had to use another platform.

Platforms should be subcontractors of the content producers. I don’t want to pay for the hosting platform but give my money to the content I love. And that a part of that money is used to provide hosting shouldn’t be my business.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by lucasmullens on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:26PM (#30445952)

That's like, the opposite of the golden rule. Do unto others only if they'd do unto you.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by Teever on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:57PM (#30446344)

Not exactly.

I would like others to reciprocate by not caring about me more than I care about them.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by fuzzer37 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:01PM (#30447148)

Why would you?

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by freediver on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:03PM (#30445650)

Orion browser (still in beta) on iOS blocks YouTube ads, has background tab playback, Picture in Picture too for cross-app and screen-off playback. Pretty much everything from Vanced, built in by default in a mobile browser.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by shaky-carrousel on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:57PM (#30445571)

I use Musi with YouTube. With it, I can play videos in the background, and there are no ads in the video. There are in the app itself, but pihole takes care of that.

I also use Hyperweb, so all YouTube links in safari open in Musi automatically.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by wand3r on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:43PM (#30449964)

Thank you! I dont have pihole but i think i can figure out something. I didnt realize there was a way to declare how to treat links in iOS. This was so helpful!

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