[HN Gopher] Vanced Team going into detail about Vanced being dis... ___________________________________________________________________ Vanced Team going into detail about Vanced being discontinued Author : chagaif Score : 15 points Date : 2022-03-20 22:25 UTC (34 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (telegra.ph) (TXT) w3m dump (telegra.ph) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-20 23:00 UTC)