Masema

8 figures of what, doll hairs?

Seriously, 10s of millions wasn't worth switching?

Unfortunately, the alternative is to let Reddit continue to profit off content contributed by users who Reddit has now decided to spurn.

A lot of people are using Reddit's data request form to get a copy of their own content before deleting it.

Maybe somebody could set up a site where users can send in their personal backups, and they can be combined into a sort of 'shadow Reddit'.

"YouTube Vanced" was meant an "Advanced" YouTube client, minus the "Ad"s.

They offered a version of the YouTube client which they patched to remove display ads and video ads, plus add background play, SponsorBlock support, and more.

They became fairly popular before Google shut them down for distributing modified versions of their proprietary code.

ReVanced was one of the teams that popped up in the aftermath, a spiritual successor. They reasoned that they could achieve the same basic functionality legally if they only distributed patches (instructions) rather than a pre-patched binary.

So they wrote an app (ReVanced Manager) that takes a stock copy of the YouTube app, unpacks it, applies patches, then repacks & re-signs it. (They don't have Google's signing keys, so typically users need to install the new version under a new name. Users with root can choose to override the built-in version instead.)

Once ReVanced Manager could do that, they expanded into patching other apps as well.

So ReVanced is a team that maintains:

  * A list of useful patches
  * An engine to apply them
  * A Java CLI frontend to the patcher
  * An Android app frontend to the patcher

(I've skipped over a lot of the history details but this should give the basic idea.)

I did this! Kind of. I bought a domain and was lucky enough to get in to a custom domain email (and more) service with a big company years ago when they had a free version.

Unfortunately... it was Google (so kind of hiring the wolf to care for my sheep, as it turns out).

And now they're cutting off all of us free tier folks. Which I can't fault them for, but still blame them for. Because I'm petty and entitled or whatever.

> it's THE Google account for some people, which includes all their purchases and data and there's no way to move it.

In these comments (on HN), I've seen claims that we'll still be able to login to Google with our old accounts, like how it's possible to have a Google account with an @yahoo login.

I've also seen people disputing that, though.

> Using G-Suite as your personal email has always been hell anyway.

I've not had "hell"-level problems. It's all been working pretty well for me.

I remember getting kicked out of Leisure Suit Larry because it asked "age verification" questions in a time before I could just use Google.

https://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.ht...

There are also custom feeds with more features available from https://hnrss.github.io/

One of those feeds is how I came across this post.