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.

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 ...

After facing a legal threat from Google, the popular Vanced YouTube app is being discontinued. The developers have confirmed that they have stopped all further development of the project, and Vanced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Most Android apps worth using are in the Google Play Store, but there are a few popular pieces of software you'll have to venture out into the wider internet to obtain. For example, Fortnite is still ...

Decidedly a non-zero chance. Piracy - which technically that app sort of is? - is a market reaction at the end of the day. The reason YT Vanced even has traction is due to the main YT app not having ...