Having YouTube Premium unlocks a ton of features that users appreciate. However, many do not like the idea of paying 11.9 euros per month for the subscription. The solution for these cases was to run modified YouTube applications, whose main exponent was YouTube Vanced.
The YouTube mod unlocked all YouTube Premium features for free, but the party was over. Yes, we have bad news for you: YouTube Vanced stops working due to legal problems , so you will have to jump through hoops with the subscription.
YouTube Vanced will continue to work as long as it can, but you won’t be able to download the app
In a statement posted on Twitter and Telegram, the YouTube Vanced development team announced that the app had been discontinued for legal reasons, so development will not go ahead. In addition, they notified that the download links from their website would be removed in the coming days, although the app would continue to work as long as YouTube allows it.
The concrete reasons behind this decision were not mentioned, but probably Google has something to do with it. After all, YouTube Vanced is an application that skips the payment of the YouTube Premium subscription , something that has been questioned by many content creators who receive part of their payment thanks to this service.
The team apologized for what happened, saying “we know it’s not something (users) want to hear, but it’s something we need to do. Thank you all for supporting us over the years.”
Why was YouTube Vanced so popular?
Although there are various applications to skip ads and different methods to play in the background, Vanced was the ultimate YouTube mod. It did these two things we just mentioned, but it also offered these other features (and many more):
- Skip sponsor segments that were embedded in the videos.
- Disable advertising on YouTube home tab.
- It allowed to disable the purchase of products and movies within the platform.
- It supported background playback and free Picture-in-Picture (PiP).
- It had a dark theme that took advantage of the energy savings of AMOLED screens.
- It had independent brightness and volume controls .
- It would allow you to reset the count of dislikes on your YouTube videos.
All this for free and without advertising! Who would not want this application on their mobile? All in all, it was a very useful app, but we can’t deny that its ethics were quite questionable.
Did you use YouTube Vanced? What will you do now that it will not be available? You can always choose one of these 3 alternatives to YouTube Vanced.
