The popular YouTube Vanced to Shut Down soon after a legal threat from Google. The YouTube lookalike app will continue to work for anyone who currently has it installed on their phone. But without any future updates, it will soon degrade into app oblivion.
YouTube Vanced, which was launched in 2017. It is a mod of Google’s Android YouTube app. The developers decompiled Google’s official YouTube app, added additional features. And distributed the resulting code.
YouTube Vanced to Shut Down?
Vanced is a popular third-party YouTube app for Android. Particularly because it allows YouTube users to block all video ads on YouTube without a Premium subscription.
Vanced also includes a true black theme, and customizations not offered in the official YouTube for Android app. For many people, it was a more Advanced form of YouTube just remove the ad and you get YouTube Vanced, (get it??).
Google sent the Vanced owners a cease and desist letter recently, which has forced the developers to stop distributing and developing the app.
“We were asked to remove all references to ‘YouTube’, change the logo, and remove all links related to YouTube products,” says an admin from the Vanced team in a Discord message to The Verge.
“Vanced has been discontinued,” reads a Telegram message from the Vanced owners. “We know this is not something you wanted to hear, but it’s something we need to do.” We’ve reached out to Google to comment on the discontinuation of Vanced, and we’ll update you accordingly.
It’s definitely bad news for people who used and loved the Vanced mod. But in the end, it had to shut down now or in the future. Let us know what you think about this updated by commenting below with your opinion.