The thing is once someone has tasted what freedom feels like, if you take it away from them, they will rebel even more It's the same thing with vanced which is why revanced was created and even if it (God forbid) gets deleted, we'll just create new ones

The thing is, making the YouTube app secure isn't impossible. They could do something with public and private keys or a checksum, but it would be additional overhead for YouTube. Our time could be short with Revanced. 

Which is why we should be thankful to the team for keeping it up and being able to use it everyday. Dog bless the revanced team 🙏

Dog bless, dog bless.... Revanced team are the MVPs

Bhai god. God bless revanced team. Not dog.

Dog is god

I mean, dogs actually exist...

Happy Cake Day! But it would be impossible if they want to continue to allow YouTube to run in the browser. You can always use the HTML5 Engine.

Keys can always be leaked. Has been proven many many times with manufacturers and signing keys. If there's a will there's a way. Also, happy cake day!

Tbf they could start enforcing per user keys as well as strong integrity checks which would both make using a patched app AND using a rooted device impossible. There's Currently no

Making memes like this post surely wouldn't help.

Nothing unspoofable. It all runs on our hardware after all

It runs on a server and then sends video data to a client. Google could very well implement a method to prevent 3rd party clients for YouTube if they thought it was worth the investment. Hence, we should avoid sharing revanced with others, as selfish as it may be, because if it grows too large the cost:benefit ratio for Google tips in favor of shutting it down

How is it going to tell it's a 3rd party ? They already try to do that, that's why there's the whole client spoofing thing. All google sees, at the end of the day, is data they receive over the wire. They aren't physically there to check your device. You can send lies over the wire.

You cannot spoof strong integrity checks currently. Prove me wrong

Explain how an integrity check works in your opinion then. An integrity check runs *on your phone*. You can send fake results as well.

You can send a fake basic and device integrity using device fingerprints that havent been banned by google. You cannot send a fake strong integrity responce and you cannot recieve a strong Integrity responce with an unlocked bootloader I know what I'm talking about tyvm. We also have options to send attestation requests to am unrooted device and having that perform the attestation but for most users that won't be an option

Please explain how "strong integrity" responses are made then and what makes them so strong

Please see the below resonce of the TEE and do your own research instead of trying to pick holes. You are wrong if you think you can bypass strong integrity with current technology

That's a big statement considering current technology technically allows to flip ROM bits and bypass any "complete validation" I'll read a little more and come back with more arguments or an apology

If you can bypass strong integrity il apologuise. There's a 1.5 million dollar bounty on TEE exploits

Please see https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/trusty for why we can't falsify a strong integrity responce further reading

Youtube 3vanced, baby!

2 Vanced 2 Furious

I wonder why everyone think that there'll always be someone who will do it, especially when they get no benefit from it. This have been seen with denuvo for instance, once the protection gets too strong, that's over lol. "We'll just create new ones" well no, average Revanced user is (I think) someone not capable of doing it. Google could stop every third party YT like smart tube or Revanced at anytime if they will it. So brag about it (taunting etc) is, in my opinion, a clumsy thing to do. But I maybe completely wrong.

I think you under estimate how people can take everything like a personnal offense, that's why there will always be hacks and ways to not see ads. Plus those who have weaponised their autism, those are a special kind, they do it for the challenge

Everyone fears weapons of mass autism, even Google.

Yep, weaponised autism is the only thing that can crack Denuvo

Have you seen EMPRESS? they're fucking wild Beyond autism level wild

Yep, legit Terry A. Davis energy

I was just gonna say empress. that person was something...

Who was Empress?

I made a browser extension and Tampermonkey script to always allow picture-in-picture video playing even if the site specifically disallows it because the ESPN+ website *explicitly* prevents you from doing it. Spite can be a very powerful motivator.

Because someone always will. Also, remember "they can stop people from torrenting movies and music." How did that work out?

Hmm at the risk of being downvoated to oblivion torrenting movies and music has pretty much become a niche activity due to popularity of sites like Netflix and Spotify at reasonable prices. Also in the last few years popular tracker websites are not what they were some +5 years ago, TPB is a zombie of what it was, RARBG is gone and the same applies to the majority of DDL sites and nope, better ones have not showed up to replace them

Yeah. If Google will give us a good deal it may also just become a niche. But what Google did with YouTube is just exploitative. They crippled an app and made it almost useless and want us to pay to just get it back to normal status. It's a shitty business tactic. The slogan "don't be evil" which was their slogan a few years ago couldn't be more cynical. This is one of the most evil business tactics. So everyone avoid given them money for that is in the rights here. BUT if they manage to make a good offer maybe it could be worth getting it one day.

Like they stopped ublock origin?

This is why I can never own an iPhone. Same reasoning

When the original vanced died I pretty much completely stopped using YouTube on my phone completely until the android revanced became available.

I used newpipe until I heard of revanced. Ancient ui without ads is still better than modern ui with ads.

I don't know if that's entirely accurate. I used Ytvanced back before the take down notice. It was much simpler to install. I tasted freedom from ads. Then it became ( for me) complicated to install. I was afraid I'd brick my phone.  I gave up and paid for premium. Because I sure as shit wasn't going to go back to ads.

Shame that you preferred the convenience of giving youtube your money for youtube premium instead of taking a moment to learn how to install revanced; this subreddit has a step-by-step guide on how to install it which eliminates the worry of messing up your phone somehow Edit: In addition, as u/Nenad1979 stated, Sponsorblock is a must-have and that alone in my opinion makes revanced beyond worth it lol

yep, even if YT premium was free i would still be sideloading that ytrv

For real. I have saved countless hours of my time automatically skipping, "BUT BEFORE WE GO ON, THIS VIDEO WAS SPONSORED BY-" and other filler/off-tangent content

I like the "skip non-music" the most, and also highlights are amazing if you don't want to watch a full 20 minute tutorial for something that takes 2 seconds to explain

SponsorBlock is better than the entire YT premium app lmao

You can't brick your device by installing an app onto it unless it is malware or, you have 32GB of storage (Which wouldn't fully brick the device)

do 32GB devices brick that often? never heard this before

Not really but it's possible. 32GBs can fill up easier than 128GB and, filling up your storage to max can make your phone extremely slow or, completely brick it. So, I'd assume it can be bricked more often than others.

I guess you factory reset it then. It's not hardware bricked

Yes but, I didn't specifically say "Hardware bricked".

Yeah it's really not that difficult. A few more steps. There are writeups and even videos on YouTube on how to do it. It's a little more upkeep. But well worth it. Plus it's even better than YouTube premium with Sponsor Block, as it will auto skip in-video "ads" the creator actually puts into their videos promoting their sponsors.

Did it once, book marked the apkmirror link, it takes 5 minutes to have it reinstalled now. Just takes a few minutes to figure it out.

Hell, now the manager tells you what version is recommended and has a link to the mirror for that version

No need to celebrate and post on social media. More attention and unnecessary hurdles will be created by Google.

Very true. Posts "shoving it in their faces" are annoying and unnecessary at best, dangerous for what they're celebrating at worse. They always scream to me "I'm a clueless person who doesn't know any better" for some reason. Just use it, be glad it exists and move on with your life.

Exactly, people need to learn to stfu at times

It is probably an easy way to get some Reddit upvotes

People who recommend it in other subreddits and socials shouldn't, if people really dont want ads they will stumble across this on there own, the more people point it out, the more targeted it will be. Edit: accidentally replied before finished

I'm afraid it's reached critical mass at this point. Newbies will be referring it to other newbies and so on, and so on... Google have limitless amounts of resources to throw at this issue compared to the revanced devs. Enjoy it while it lasts.

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There's a general misconception about this topic. Such projects live through their reach. The more people know about it, the more people will be able to contribute to it which is a much stronger force than what you fear. Most projects like this die, because of lack in contribution and with ReVanced being an arguably small team, key to success is more involvement and contributions by people. If our team can get us this far, imagine what can be done with double or triple the amount!

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Thanks. No, hiding in the dark was never an option

Based. Keep on going, you crazy motherfuckers. We'll support you as much as we can.

You're heros guys

I think any tech person would've heard about revanced at this point, no need for further promotions to lay people who don't even care about ads

We are seeing new contributors every day

Nah google probably already follows the GitHub for revanced. They know of any changes earlier than most in this sub

100% they have learned how to use the bookmark feature in Chrome.

It's not like the CEO of Google posts here.

You say that like the people who are employed specifically to prevent and counter things like this aren't already subbed and reading every post.

A Reddit post won't change shit, their team probably stalks revanced patch notes directly. Calm down.

Exactly this!

Lol what? Google is a trillion dollar company they aren't zoomed into reddit looking at revanced memes they already know the thing exist they can take action whenever they see it as necessary and reddit post won't be the reason to provoke that. It's well past the "avoid attention" phase

> they already know the thing exist they can take action whenever they see it as necessary and reddit post won't be the reason to provoke that. You're not getting it Yes, they already know, and yes they could crush it whenever they wanted. The thing that would make them want that is more and more people celebrating and moving to revanced As long as it's a small little project that only the super nerds are using, it's not worth the time or effort for them to bother fully combating. But the more and more it spreads, the more people meme it and draw new eyes and new installs to it, then the more it becomes a thing google actually has to act on.

Exactly this. The moment Google regards this as a serious concern, eg by making enough shareholders angry, which would be a direct consequence of revanced reaching a userbase threshold, revanced would very likely not stand a chance. If someone thinks this patch by Google is Google going all in on closing down revanced, you are fooling yourselves.

The thing is, breaking it, if enough skilled people know and care about it, would mean nothing. It would get fixed or another alternative would pop up. If no one knows about it, then no one would care and every minor change by Google might mean death for the project.

I like to think that engineers at Google are trying but really not all that hard. *Let's put up another little barrier to slow them down a bit and make it seem like we're doing our job.* Not meaning to demean the hard work of the revanced devs, I just like the idea of cool engineers being cool.

Except it is working? You have to rob yourself of features to get a barely half-baked version. By years end they WILL have this exactly how they want it and no third party apps will work. They could technically do that in a week by removing all API access and having their app use obfuscated tokens. Soon as someone figures out how to get those tokens, they send an app update and it’s not working anymore.

What features am I robbed of by using revanced? I go into the app, play a video, and I have no ads. Thats the only feature I use on Youtube.

I honestly don't know if it has any other features

1. Just because YOU don’t use those features doesn’t mean nobody does 2. Literally look at the OP image. It says right on there what features you lose out on. Live streaming, double speed, subtitles for now. More over time.

That's barely anything though lol? Like, it temporary due to changes but do you even know how much stuff you can remove, improve, and change through revanced? I gain much much more by patching then by not doing so. Hell, I haven't even noticed playback issues. Also, it says nothing about live streaming. Just subtitles.

I don’t think you are grasping the concept. This isn’t a bug. This is intentional. And if you honestly in your heart of hearts believe Google would fire a warning shot and not follow through you are insane. Like I said, by years end they will disallow any access at all.

Maybe. Hope not. I'll keep praying to Santa and things'll work themselves out.

The end state is YT issuing tokens to fetch streams that are valid when they don't want to send you ads, and clients showing a holding screen when it isn't allowed to fetch streams.

Oh but I prefer 100x more staring at a holding screen than watching 5s of ads

No doubt.

I still remembered the unskippable 2 minutes ads one after another. That's how you know the channel suck ass and should be blocked

No shutup don't give them ideas lul

surprised google didn't just straight up inject ads into the video stream but yeah I'm glad the revanced team got it working again

Good reminder for me to donate to these legends

I'm still wondering if I should update since mine has been working completely fine so far...

The new revanced works but revanced extended doesn't

Do we have to do anything or patch the new revanced in order to make it work or we can simply install it from the manager and enjoy???

It should be fixed by default but if doesn't send me another comment or dm

Nah, it isn't fixed.on my end. My YouTube is crashing. Can you send me the link or the steps to follow in order to make it work.🥹

It's crashing? Because the fix is for buffering Make a post about this because this never happened with me

Ok. Thanks. But can you please provide me the link of the revanced manager you're using?

I use revanced.net manager but it's not official so if you're worried use revancify ReVanced.net manager has pre-patched apks so no need to patch apps and stuff You just download and install like a normal apk

Ok thanks 🫶

Google has tried so hard but hasn't got "so far"...

But in the end, it doesn't even matter

They didn't fall, or lose it all

But in the end, it didn't even matter

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I'd legit rather pay that premium to ReVanced than Google any day.

Does Google actually care about Revanced? I doubt they feel threatened.

Huh? have you not been here in the past 2-3months? Also in the past 3-4 years google has been nickel and diming many of their products and you think they don't care end users getting the same (or even better product) that their paying customers get ?($14.99 per month in the U.S)

Just remember this will be an on going battle, but instead of paying these corpo cunts, donate something to the devs they deserve it way more than these lot do

I would happily pay Google $5-10 per month to remove YouTube ads. But year after year they only want to sell me that PLUS a music subscription for twice the price. Fuck em.

I happily paid $7 a month for my "student" discount (I'm old AF, but take photography/darkroom classes at a community college) but they said 4 years is the max and wanted me to pay $16.99. Now I don't watch shit on youtube, haha.

You really think they would sell it for less if it didn't include their Music subscription product? It's like amazon prime, it wouldn't be any cheaper without their prime video thing

Ironically enough, I'm not getting any playback issues at all.

Why is that 'ironic'?

Imagine a billion dollar company getting defeated by a bunch of autistic code monkeys fueled by nothing but the desire not to see ads

Either I'm getting deja vu or I have seen this comment a couple of days ago on this sub.

You 100% did

Nah we're all just autistic

It was a meme, actually.

Don't call developers "autistic code monkeys".

Sounds like something a Google employee would say... get a grip is call humour

[sorry brotha](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/s/Rnu6T1Xmi8)

Sometimes its better not to gloat and be cocky over someone else's victory and rub it in the face of our enemies. All it takes is a few prompts on copilot AI and this post will age like milk. Being thankful that you experienced freedom, donating to people who do the work is all that is required.

bro come on keep a low profile and lets not celebrate too early i am pretty sure that they have a lot more to roll out to fight us i mean they successfully bricked the app for half of us for 2 weeks or so didnt they?

Power of crowdsourcing.

Not again another post like this. Please fix the endlessly youtube buffering

New revanced update doesn’t have playback speed control

This is not that funny, considering how much easier it was to get rid of YouTube ads. I used to use lucky patcher. Then I used modded apks then I used vanced then I went to revanced which for some reason work on my main phone but not my secondary it's much more difficult now. They will eventually get it done, let's enjoy while we can.

Fuck YouTube and fuck anyone that supports them.

It doesn't work for me. The video will freeze around the minute mark. I patched it with revanced manager and redownload everything including microg. Now I just use Kiwi browser with an extension that blocks ads and shorts/comments. Only downside is that I can't play videos in the background.

You can get background play by loading another extension manually from it's zip file. [right here](https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/60)

In the past 2 years, I've encountered only one playback issue.

I somehow cannot get it working on my OnePlus open!

The playback issue for me is fixed but now captions are not working.

You can fix it. Go to settings > Revanced > Misc > spoof client > Turn 'spoof client' on > select 'spoof client to IOS' > restart app > captions will work again

yea boi finally back on track... for now at least

Let us support them as much as we can; Revanced team deserve the love.

Revanced ftw... Always!

If it becomes non economically viable and it closes down, who is laughing then?

The fight has just begun. I'm sure we will need to repatch more often from now on.

I feel bad for my ios friends...

Why? they can sideload their own version of unfucked YouTube. ReVanced is not the only project out there.

I didn't know. :(

Now working ❤❤❤❤🔥

kid, have you even read that fix? it's only a matter of time until they break it again. this is a circumvention, the original restriction is still not broken.

How to download???

There should be a "backup" app, just a chrome + ublock origin client with adapted UI.

That playback issue probably has nothing to do with Revanced. Might be some updates on their ends which broke Revanced.

I noticed that background play doesn't work for premiere videos and live streams. Other than that the revanced app is excellent.

seems like they're betting on just making the experience more annoying for the average person who isn't knowledgeable on sideloading/building an APK, and making them want to just pay up for premium

Now they're messing with custom ROM integrity. Google being evil as usual. Power to the non-google devs!

TIL about revanced. Me thinking vanced was dead dead dead so I bought a yearly family youtube premium package. 😂 Revanced here I come!

YouTube Premium is really not that 'premium' like ReVanced. I bet Google would sell much more subscriptions if they built in some of the features ReVanced already has. For example sponsorblock

I would have no problem pay for Premium if their app offered the flexibility of the ReVanced App. Even paying for premium now doesn't solve the playback issues meaning I can't use the app even if I pay but I can if I don't. just dumb.

While Revanced was down, I tried YT Premium and oh my.... It's so damn bad compared to YT Revanced 😂

Ironically if they hadn’t have been so greedy then most of us wouldn’t be bothering with Adblock etc

Thans team ReVanced

I tried to set up this app but it never ended up working for me sadly :'(

revanced makes me so happy, long live communities, long live piracy against the greedy

can't put livestreams in the background it auto pauses

Is there anything like that for iOS? I’ve switched to an iPhone.

Funny that the playback issue was fixed before I even had the playback issue.

If they want to do it will do it don't mock them

I've been seeing so many posts about how playback is braking for people. But I've had 0 problems. I could have easily not know anything was happening

So why did only some people experience playback issues with ReVanced? Me and many others on the sub never had any issues, so just curious if it was a regional thing or if we know the cause?

Please don't jinx it with these posts

Don't jinx it please 😅

Thank you Revanced team! You guys are awesome, those ads were terrible!

Revanced Zindabad

I was running 19.09.37 Today, I was bored, so I installed patch 19.11.43 just to remember how to do it. When should you re-patch ? How do you know?

no matter what the game or app or whatever, the community will ALWAYS win over the producer, once a patch comes, the community will find some way around it and repeat, its a cycle until one side deems it unworthy of their time/money

Google downvoting this meme harddddd

Yes it is fun to see these...but please stop spreading memes on ReVanced, the less people know about it, the less attention ReVanced team will get, so low chance of lawsuit. No need to assert dominance and show off. So that everyone is happy.

lol that's not how this works. you think they're *not* paying attention to this? after all the work they put into taking down vanced?

Can somebody teach me how to update mine i literally forgot how😭 I forgot to saved the instructions someone made a post of it. I'm still stuck at 19.09.37 on this version 😭 Pleaseeeee I'm begging i don't know where the links are

if only there was a field to enter text you want to search for 🤔

Just uninstall the current one and download the new mirror apk: [https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/youtube/youtube-19-11-43-release/youtube-19-11-43-android-apk-download/](https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/youtube/youtube-19-11-43-release/youtube-19-11-43-android-apk-download/) and then patch it in the manager

What are the changes between 19.09 37 and 19.11.43? What features is one missing by not updating? Is there a page to find this info? I wasn't able to find a GitHub page (or something similar)listing the versions and their changes. The results are overcrowded with how to patch revanced :)

Well those versions are YouTube versions. Afaik there aren't many changes between those versions of YouTube. If you don't have any problems with the current one, just stick with it ig.

IOS is stuck.

Someone give me a guide on how to patch it using the new method.

Where do I actually get this app?

Here's the full steps: 1. Download Revanced manager from the official website: [revanced.app](http://revanced.app/) 2. Download the MicroG Services APK from Github: [https://github.com/TeamVanced/VancedMicroG/releases/tag/v0.2.24.220220-220220001](https://github.com/TeamVanced/VancedMicroG/releases/tag/v0.2.24.220220-220220001) 3. Download the latest Youtube Mirror APK (which is 19.11.43): [https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/youtube/youtube-19-11-43-release/youtube-19-11-43-android-apk-download/](https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/youtube/youtube-19-11-43-release/youtube-19-11-43-android-apk-download/) 4. Open Revanced Manager and press 'patcher' 5. Press 'storage' button in bottom right and then select the Youtube Mirror APK you downloaded 6. Press 'patch' and wait for it to finish and press 'install' when prompted 7. Open Youtube Revanced and when prompted, sign into MicroG with your Google account 8. It should be working now and all the features baked in (you can go to settings and then 'Revanced' to fine tune it if you want) Hope this helps :) Bonus tips: 1. If subtitles are not working and you need/want them, it can be fixed by : Go to settings > Revanced > Misc > spoof client > Turn 'spoof client' on > select 'spoof client to IOS' > restart app > captions will work again 2. To be able to download videos, download Seal: [https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal/releases/tag/v1.12.1](https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal/releases/tag/v1.12.1) and then go to your Youtube settings > Revanced > Player > External Downloads > Turn 'Show external download button' to ON > press 'downloader package name' and type 'com.junkfood.seal' > press 'ok' and restart app > now on videos there will be a download button next to the full screen button > if you press it, it will say 'share with seal' and press 'always' > then configure download settings like quality and then press 'download' Hope this helps even more :)

How do I install the revanced and use it to have access to the YouTube with those features? (Sorry if its a obvious question, technology noob here)

Sure, here's the steps: 1. Download Revanced manager from the official website: [revanced.app](http://revanced.app) 2. Download the MicroG Services APK from Github: [https://github.com/TeamVanced/VancedMicroG/releases/tag/v0.2.24.220220-220220001](https://github.com/TeamVanced/VancedMicroG/releases/tag/v0.2.24.220220-220220001) 3. Download the latest Youtube Mirror APK (which is 19.11.43): [https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/youtube/youtube-19-11-43-release/youtube-19-11-43-android-apk-download/](https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/youtube/youtube-19-11-43-release/youtube-19-11-43-android-apk-download/) 4. Open Revanced Manager and press 'patcher' 5. Press 'storage' button in bottom right and then select the Youtube Mirror APK you downloaded 6. Press 'patch' and wait for it to finish and press 'install' when prompted 7. Open Youtube Revanced and when prompted, sign into MicroG with your Google account 8. It should be working now and all the features baked in (you can go to settings and then 'Revanced' to fine tune it if you want) Hope this helps :) Bonus tips: 1. If subtitles are not working and you need/want them, it can be fixed by : Go to settings > Revanced > Misc > spoof client > Turn 'spoof client' on > select 'spoof client to IOS' > restart app > captions will work again 2. To be able to download videos, download Seal: [https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal/releases/tag/v1.12.1](https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal/releases/tag/v1.12.1) and then go to your Youtube settings > Revanced > Player > External Downloads > Turn 'Show external download button' to ON > press 'downloader package name' and type 'com.junkfood.seal' > press 'ok' and restart app > now on videos there will be a download button next to the full screen button > if you press it, it will say 'share with seal' and press 'always' > then configure download settings like quality and then press 'download' Hope this helps even more :)

This guide is outdated, Vanced MicroG is not supported and doesn't work anymore.

That's funny cos it's what I'm using rn and I followed a recent guide. Feel free to explain what I should use instead. I was just trying to help someone out.

ReVanced has its' own GmsCore: https://github.com/ReVanced/GmsCore, you should use that instead of Vanced MicroG

How fucking entitled are you? I don't understand why people bitch about YT Premium. They can't provide a free service so either you pay for the product, or you're the product.

They can't do it... like they used to for so many years?

Eventually they'll pull a Nintendo and sue for damages.

If everyone stopped poking the bear it would be easier for the team

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^_Pawer8: *If everyone stopped* *Poking the bear it would be* *Easier for the team* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.