Google C&D’d the original Vanced team because they were stupid and created an NFT out of the logo, which was pretty much just a stylized version of Youtube’s own logo.
The Vanced team claimed otherwise, but the timing was too close to be coincidental.
Never heard of that but I kinda doubt that’s reason, since Google also started moving against adblockers in Chrome around that time, and the lost revenue from advertising just seems like a more substantial reason than some copyright NFT stuff.
Either way, had YT Vanced been open-source at the time someone could have just forked it the next day, so I hope this time around whoever is maintaining the project learned from that.
Vanced also distributed a modified Youtube app, so they were shipping modifoed Google code. Revanced is just patches the user has to apply themselves, so it’s less illegal
Google C&D’d the original Vanced team because they were stupid and created an NFT out of the logo, which was pretty much just a stylized version of Youtube’s own logo.
The Vanced team claimed otherwise, but the timing was too close to be coincidental.
Never heard of that but I kinda doubt that’s reason, since Google also started moving against adblockers in Chrome around that time, and the lost revenue from advertising just seems like a more substantial reason than some copyright NFT stuff.
Either way, had YT Vanced been open-source at the time someone could have just forked it the next day, so I hope this time around whoever is maintaining the project learned from that.
Vanced also distributed a modified Youtube app, so they were shipping modifoed Google code. Revanced is just patches the user has to apply themselves, so it’s less illegal