[HN Gopher] Vanced Team going into detail about Vanced being dis...
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       Vanced Team going into detail about Vanced being discontinued
        
       Author : chagaif
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2022-03-20 22:25 UTC (34 minutes ago)
        
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       | H8crilA wrote:
       | > _The main source of income for youtube isn 't ads. YouTube
       | revolves around the merchandise and YouTube Premium
       | subscriptions._
       | 
       | Lol. You can open Alphabet's 10-Q or 10-K and find out in a
       | matter of seconds how untrue this is. Reminds me of the famous
       | "Senator, we run ads <suppressed smile>" by Zuckerberg.
        
         | LewisVerstappen wrote:
         | > Reminds me of the famous "Senator, we run ads <suppressed
         | smile>" by Zuckerberg.
         | 
         | Why? Zuckerberg wasn't lying when he said Facebook makes their
         | money from ads though.
        
       | bhaak wrote:
       | > The vanced team will "NEVER" make its source code public.
       | Making the source code available on the internet can cause
       | serious complications for us.
       | 
       | How would Google have acted if the source code was open source
       | from the beginning?
        
       | endisneigh wrote:
       | > Some users believe that Google had sent cease & desist letter
       | because the Vanced Team had posted NFT to earn money out of the
       | vanced project. The Vanced NFT was never sold in the end.
       | Besides, it was done as a joke and nothing more.
       | 
       | Says everything you need to know about NFTs
        
         | simulate-me wrote:
         | What does this say about NFTs exactly?
        
           | klodolph wrote:
           | That they're schemes to make money that don't withstand
           | scrutiny or solve problems better than the alternatives.
        
       | charcircuit wrote:
       | >The vanced team will "NEVER" make its source code public. Making
       | the source code available on the internet can cause serious
       | complications for us.
       | 
       | There shouldn't be issues as long as you are sharing them as
       | patches unless they didn't own the rights to the code they added.
        
       | kayson wrote:
       | 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?
        
       | squarefoot wrote:
       | > Vanced is discontinued for "legal reasons" as vanced was
       | infringing the logo and branding of the original YouTube app as
       | the logo resembles the original logo in a similar way and was
       | used without taking prior permission from Google for using the
       | branding.
       | 
       | Huh?!? That was the only reason behind the C&D letter and they
       | killed the product when a simple logo redesign could have solved
       | the issue? Or the C&D letter would have voided any attempt to do
       | that? Something doesn't add up.
        
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