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Comment by junaru | Hacker News Reader

> YouTube Vanced

I get why they want to stay anonymous but that website is no different from any other malware site - no source, no authors just some affiliate links. Putting your google credentials in an app like that is not something people should be comfortable with.

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NewPipe let's you 'subscribe' to channels without giving it any credentials. You know, like how it used to be with RSS. The good way. The user empowered way.

> You know, like how it used to be with RSS.

That, my friend, would be because it is RSS!

IIRC, think NewPipe actually requests the channel pages and parses the html.

It has both. The RSS method is fast but doesn't have the full video data (it's missing durations, for example). The parsed version is slower but complete.

Some time ago, the version I installed (from a regular Google search) tried to use my phone as a throwaway number. For around two months I got validation codes for PayPal, confirmation calls from crypto sites and a lot of messages from horny men who click ads on porn sites. It took me a while to piece it back together.

The only reason it didn't work is that I refused the app the permission to read text messages.

You likely downloaded a malware version if you just googled the name. The official version is at https://vancedapp.com/.

https://github.com/YTVanced

This doesn't seem to contain the source code for the app itself.

Just use it w/o logging in. I have a YT account, but I never login with Vanced. I only do so when I have something very important to add in the comment section and that happens on the desktop. You don't have to be too paranoid

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