Video Watching Application Without Ads, YouTube Vanced Is Officially Discontinued

JAKARTA - YouTube Vanced, an unaffiliated application with Google and YouTube for watching YouTube videos without ads, was recently removed by YouTube. The app developer has confirmed this. They have discontinued all Vanced services.

"Vanced has been discontinued. In the coming days, the download link on the website will be taken down. We know this is not something you want to hear but it is something we need to do. Thank you for supporting us all this time," the official statement read. via Twitter @YTVanced.

In his tweet, Vanced also informed that the version currently installed should work properly in 2 years or so.

Vanced has been discontinued. In the coming days, the download links on the website will be taken down. We know this is not something you wanted to hear but it's something we need to do. Thank you all for supporting us over the years.

— Vanced Official (@YTVanced) March 13, 2022

YouTube has always been an ad-supported platform. All content creators and YouTube owners, Google, earn from the ads that appear in their videos every time they are watched. YouTube also offers an ad-free video viewing service, however, it will cost you per month.

While Vanced is a platform that successfully offers owners of Android smartphones and tablets to watch YouTube without ads free of charge, aka free. Vanced also allows viewers to skip sponsored segments that are built in and spoken by content creators by default.

YouTube Vanced is basically a modified version of the official YouTube app that also offers other features like video playback in the background and free Picture-in-Picture (PiP), which should be exclusive to official YouTube Premium subscribers.

The app even enhances the official YouTube app by offering an AMOLED Black theme, gestures for brightness/volume control. The modified app also returns the number of dislikes YouTube has recently removed.

The process of installing YouTube Vanced is also very easy and systematic and its ability to remove ads from all YouTube videos creates many legal and ethical problems or can be called illegal.