Enjoying the benefits of YouTube Premium on Android without spending a dime is what the YouTube Vanced app offers… for a few more days. Following threats from Google, it will soon disappear.
When using YouTube, you must accept the presence of advertisements to enjoy the video content published on the platform. The spots, broadcast before, during and after watching a video can quickly annoy. To avoid, Google offers YouTube Premium, a free service for three months, then charged 11.99 euros per month all the same. It is partly to avoid these inconveniences that the YouTube Vanced app was designed. This is a “mod” (understand a modification) of Google’s original YouTube app for mobile. It takes up the design and all the features, but with some very significant little advantages. It thus embeds an ad blocker that allows you to enjoy all of YouTube without the slightest ad interfering in viewing. In addition, YouTube Vanced also incorporates a function specific to the Premium version of the Google service: It is thus possible to switch the app to a background task or even to put the smartphone on standby without the playback of content being interrupted. Enough to satisfy those who use music playlists from YouTube… So many functions that also raise the ire of Google. To the point of sending a formal notice to the developers of YouTube Vanced. These must remove any reference to YouTube in their application and even the logo of the streaming service. An impossible operation. So much so that the developers of the app prefer to stop there, as they indicated on their Twitter account on Sunday March 13. “Vanced has been discontinued. In the next few days, the download links on the site will be removed. We know it’s not something you wanted to hear, but it’s something we need to do. Thank you all for supporting us over the years.”say the creators.
Advanced has been discontinued. In the coming days, the download links on the website will be taken down. We know this is not something you wanted to hear but it’s something we need to do. Thank you all for supporting us over the years.
—Vanced Official (@YTVanced) March 13, 2022
Available outside the Google PlayStore as an APK file to download and install, YouTube Vanced is therefore about to leave the scene. The download links have already disappeared from the website and the development of the application has stopped. You can always continue to download YouTube Vanced from our download area in order to install it (read our practical sheet to find out how to install an application with its APK file). Especially since those who have already installed YouTube Vanced on their mobile should be able to continue to use it. How much longer remains to be seen.