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PierfrancescoSoffritti / android-youtube-player

YouTube Player library for Android and Chromecast, stable and customizable.
https://pierfrancescosoffritti.github.io/android-youtube-player/
MIT License
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How it is made in vanced? #707

Open ssSFrankSss opened 3 years ago

ssSFrankSss commented 3 years ago

Hi, I have downloaded Vanced app from playstore. And I wonder how they were able to fully customize the player and remove any YouTube logos, and include their own buttons? And also how is this legal with 1 million downloads - with Google letting this app to be on playstore :/

This question comes as I have read that removing YouTube logos is impossible with this library. Can somebody point me to the right direction?

Thank you for this amazing library anyway :)

PierfrancescoSoffritti commented 3 years ago

Are you talking about Vanced Tube - Video Player? I agree, not sure that app will be there for long. It has beep published for the first time late last year, so not long ago. In my experience Google can be pretty slow in finding app's that break ToS.

ssSFrankSss commented 3 years ago

Yes! And now they released also an app called "Pure Tuber". I can not understand how they were able to remove all the youtube logos and fully customize player. I believe this is a webview and they were able somehow to remove all logos with HTML5 maybe who knows...

PierfrancescoSoffritti commented 3 years ago

Well it's possible to hack the web player to remove parts of it, see #329. It's not a good solution though, since it will break each time YouTube makes some changes to their code.

Still YouTube won't be happy with it, as you're breaking ToS.

PierfrancescoSoffritti commented 3 years ago

I just looked at Pure Tuber, can say almost for sure that it will be removed, since it's just a YouTube clone and breaks every rule. Unless something major changed in the ToS.

NaqiControl commented 3 years ago

Hi Sir @PierfrancescoSoffritti can you please take a look here