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Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good::The company is exploring an integrity API that could lock down WebViews with DRM

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't understand why YouTube doesn't use the stupid blob video format (I don't know the technical details, maybe it's about drm protection) already. It almost makes it impossible to view a video in something other than the player it came with and I don't like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Android WebView Media Integrity API

Is the WebView based on Chromium? If they add this WebView, how far off would it be from being added to Chromium?

[+] [email protected] -17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The amount of copium I see in these comments is staggering. Google owns the Youtube app, they own the Youtube servers, they even own the damn operating system you're running it on, and they're one of the richest companies in history. Do you REALLY think they couldn't shut down ReVanced if they wanted to? Are you really that naive?

The moment they decide to put even a small amount of effort towards shutting down ReVanced or the others, they're as good as dead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The moment they decide to put even a small amount of effort towards shutting down ReVanced or the others, they’re as good as dead.

Possible. Now what it is missing is the part that should convince the ReVanced user to accept the new situation (they must bear the Ads) instead of stopping to use the service. Remember, Google if fighting against people that are already taking active actions against them, not the Average Joe user.

And in all this, Google cannot risk to put too many hops in the path of the Average Joe users as there is the risk that the common user consider that, all in all, the service no more worth the headache to use it.

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