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| Source: Vanced |
The official Vanced Twitter handle has now posted a new twist which announces the decision. “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,” a tweet in the twist says.
Check out below the tweet:
Currently installed versions will work just fine, until they become outdated in 2 years or so.
— Vanced Official (@YTVanced) March 13, 2022
A report by The Verge, Vanced owners were sent a letter by, Google that forced the developers to stop give out and developing the app. “We were asked, to remove all references to ‘YouTube’, change the logo and remove all links related to YouTube products,” an admin from the Vanced team, said to publication.
Vanced was a very popular app between Android users due to much reasons. It offered an ads free experience which was favor on the regular YouTube app, which offers multiple ads at the beginning of a video and sometimes putting a couple of ads in the middle of videos. YouTube Vanced also allowed users to use a completely black theme that lever aged (AMOLED) display phones and also other customizations that the official YouTube app merely lacked.
While that was not available on the Play Store, the Vanced website allowed users to download an APK file and it's side load, to even integrate their Google account to sync their all data including subscribed channels, comments and everything else.
