While no website is mentioned, the contact email domain reveals the identity of the person easily. The developer ID is already taken down by Google. Identifying the copycat doesn’t require much time. A random person has uploaded the non-root version of YouTube Vanced (package name: ) to Play Store and it is still up at the time of reporting. We are now aware of another such incident. As a consequence, developers offer both root and non-root based solutions via the XDA thread or their official site for sideloading.īecause of the popularity of this mod, copycats are always popping up like mushrooms after rain. Problem is the modded version can’t be distributed via Play Store as it violates number of policies imposed by Google. The group of developers have done exactly that. Thus, patching the condition checks and porting premium features seem feasible.
The idea behind creating Vanced is quite simple: original YouTube apps share a large volume of common codebase. Vanced is a well known modded version of YouTube with many features such as adblocking and background playback and many more. And we also have YouTube Vanced, a well-known mod of original YouTube app with lot of extra features. There are some alternatives – NewPipe is the most eminent one among them. Oh, and you need to deal with ads… I mean A LOT OF ADS! ? Obviously there are some caveats, such as background playback or picture-in-picture (PiP) mode are reserved for the premium tier.
It also offers a ‘Go’ variant for users with less bandwidth and entry level phone.
The regular YouTube app is not that miserable though. For example, bundling Facebook with a phone and running the humongous memory hogging app may irritate an individual so much that they end up with certain things “de-bullshified”. On the other hand, sometimes you may want to get rid of all the extra ‘features’ from an official app. We all know the tragic demise of Windows Mobile due to lack of third party apps. Official app support for third party services often play a key role behind the success of the platform as well as the service.
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