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.

YouTube Vanced has been discontinued, its developers announced. The unofficial app offered background listening, ad-free playback, and more. The team has since confirmed that Vanced was shut down due ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

YouTube Vanced is done for, Google has finally managed to shut the service down. This has been announced by the official YouTube Vanced account on Twitter, and various other social media accounts. For ...

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 ...

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 ...

As some of you may know, YouTube Vanced has been discontinued. The team behind the app announced the news via various social media channels recently. YouTube Vanced has been the favorite YouTube ...