Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. On March 13, popular alternative YouTube client Vanced announced it would be shuttering its service in the immediate future.

Google's YouTube video platform operates on a model where users can either watch videos for free with ads or pay a monthly subscription for YouTube Premium to remove ads and unlock additional perks.

There’s perhaps no third-party YouTube app more popular than YouTube Vanced, bringing a variety of features to the table compared to the stock app. Unfortunately, the app was shut down by its creators ...

YouTube Vanced, a popular mod of the official YouTube Android app, is dead. The project announced its discontinuation over the weekend. The project leaders are being weirdly coy about why the app is ...

Vanced gave users an ad free experience on YouTube, which isn't possible without YouTube Premium. YouTube Vanced, the mobile phone application popular among Android users to block all advertisements ...

On March 13, popular third-party YouTube app Vanced announced that it would be shutting down its operations after receiving legal pushback from Google. The app's developers took to Twitter to share ...

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YouTube Premium is how you’re officially supposed to watch videos without ads so that Creators continue to earn revenue from their work. An effort has long existed to get around paying for the ad-free ...

YouTube Vanced has been the go-to app, at least for Android smartphone users who wanted to experience ad-free streaming on YouTube for free. Due to "Legal Issues ...

Sanuj Bhatia, the managing editor at Pocketnow, is responsible for supervising and contributing to all the content published on the website, including news, reviews, features, and how-tos. He began ...