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[–] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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