YouTube Vanced will be shutting down, after legal threat. The popular app is being discontinued after years of being available on the Android platform. Released first in 2018, YouTube Vanced is a sideloadable Android app that allows users to block ads, skip sponsored content, use a dark theme layout, and other useful tweaks, including bringing back the recently removed dislike button, bypassing the need for YouTube Premium. That combined with its popularity is likely why Google went after the project, serving them with a cease and desist. The Vanced team announced that due to "legal reasons", they'll be removing links to download the app from their website, and work on the project will be discontinued.

Existing installs of YouTube Vanced should still work for the foreseeable future, until Google makes significant changes to YouTube that would render the app useless.

Vanced 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

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[tpax]

I have been using Vanced, NewPipe, uBlock etc. for a very long time, and haven't seen a single YouTube ad for years. Last week I visited a friend of mine, who has purchased a new TV which also has a YouTube app preinstalled. He wanted to show me some videos on YouTube and my fucking goodness, has this platform become a fucking shithole. Every fucking video launches with an ad that's subjectively is as long as the fucking video itself. It's absolutely unusable without an ad blocker at this point.
The day where I'm not gonna be able to block ads on YouTube, is the day where I'll leave YouTube forever. And no, I'm not gonna pay those prices for premium.

 

[tpax]

Oh darn


Sucks that the Android apps don't have Sponsorblock support

There's a NewPipe fork that features Sponsorblock if it's a must have for you:

https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe#newpipe-x-sponsorblock

But yea, otherwise we'd have to use Fennec (FIrefox fork) with uBlock and SponsorBlock add-ons installed.

 

[nolimits59]

Hope Cercube won't follow anytime soon.

 

[|<roni&g]

How annoying. They shouldn't be able to be tracked for a c&d to occur

 

[ILuvGames]

All they have done is remove the manager. If you manage to 'find' a copy of the manager like I did through an archived snapshot of the main webpage from yesterday, vanced still downloads and installs. So you can still get it if you want before it really does disappear from their site and the server for good.

 

[HinaNaru Cutie]

Dude this is the worst gosh damn news to come out of this year for me...like what the living heck man ! ...I legit am seriously bummed out about this, but yes screw disgusting stalking Google pigs...

This really bummed me out..I love vanced so much, if I would've known early about it I would've had it with me for more years because that's how much I legit am enjoying this over shart youtube...ugh like what the f...I really hope there is a way for it to still work even though the most hypocritical bullcrap pig company strikes it...makes me want to throw a shoe at the company.

 

[ChristIsRisen]

So sad, this was a great app. I wonder how long the current versions will continue to work?

 

[Tomato123]

All they have done is remove the manager. If you manage to 'find' a copy of the manager like I did through an archived snapshot of the main webpage from yesterday, vanced still downloads and installs. So you can still get it if you want before it really does disappear from their site and the server for good.

There are also more sources to get the apks from, but that's not the problem. The problem is that if YouTube ever makes a change that breaks anything in Vanced, it will never be fixed. They could easily just release one of those changes whenever they want to.

 

[ILuvGames]

There are also more sources to get the apks from, but that's not the problem. The problem is that if YouTube ever makes a change that breaks anything in Vanced, it will never be fixed. They could easily just release one of those changes whenever they want to.

Thanks. I get that. I just mentioned it becuase I had never heard of Youtube Vanced until I read in here what it is and what it does and wondered if I could still find it via official means and install it. I figured that there might be other people reading this thread that wanted to do the same as me.

 

[omega59]

if YT updates their API in the coming weeks, Vanced will be dead totally.

 

[Paulsar99]

This sucks. I've discovered vanced like a year ago because I'm sick and tired of the ridiculous amounts of ads youtube forces on you. I just hope it will still work for a few years or just in time for an alternative to take its place.

 

[Viri]

Funny, I just got my friend to install YT Vanced, and installed it on my dad's phone last week.

 

[raxadian]

It removes 100% of the ads here.

Unfortunately some ads show up once in a while but nowhere as much as with the adblocker off.

 

[Arecaidian Fox]

Welp, guess I'll cling to my Vanced install for as long as it works... Firefox with plugins after that. I'm not paying Google to fix the shit they broke on purpose.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

One of these days you'll all learn that RSS feeds exist and YouTube has them (for now) and you can use them with literally any 3rd party client, especially FOSS ones that Google can't take down but only play cat and mouse with.

man i miss when RSS was widespread

 

[kehkou]

Hopefully this gets forked to hell. I can't imagine such a dedicated user base will let it go quietly into the dark.

 

[FAKEdemicBioPYSCHONANOWAR]

Fk you google give us the old youtube back and stop doing this BS

 

[MadMakuFuuma]

"oh this is good. now content creators are going to receive more without ad blockers in their way"

before post something like my example above, know that google actualy is retaining 40% of the creators per user subscription to a channel. 40 f*ck1ng %. so please, don't.

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im not using vanced for like 8 months by now. my smartphone has this weird problem with battery ( random shutting down) so i am watching youtube on my pc (with ad blocks) or on my amazon fire stick ( smartTubeNext, pared with my account via code) no ads, no bs.

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[Marc_LFD]

One of my favorite new "features" of Vanced is the dislikes and if they stop working, that'll kinda suck.

 

[Tweaker_Modding]

I have been using Vanced, NewPipe, uBlock etc. for a very long time, and haven't seen a single YouTube ad for years. Last week I visited a friend of mine, who has purchased a new TV which also has a YouTube app preinstalled. He wanted to show me some videos on YouTube and my fucking goodness, has this platform become a fucking shithole. Every fucking video launches with an ad that's subjectively is as long as the fucking video itself. It's absolutely unusable without an ad blocker at this point.
The day where I'm not gonna be able to block ads on YouTube, is the day where I'll leave YouTube forever. And no, I'm not gonna pay those prices for premium.

once i literally had a 3 minute ad that was unskippable on a 17 second video
this is why i use smart tube next on my chromecast to watch youtube on my tv
now i’m gonna have to switch to a vanced alternative