Discussion YouTube Vanced discontinued

[crepuscule]

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 was a YouTube app for Android that allowed background play and blocked ads among other features.

An alternative I already use is Newpipe: https://newpipe.net/

Newpipe also has its own subscription system so you don't have to use a Google account with it.

 

[doop]

NONONONONONONONONONONONOBONO
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
FUCK FUCK FUCK

 

[medic]

seconding the newpipe recommendation. been using it instead of vanced for years now, although it's lost the accidental featureset that used to make it better than vanced. hope it's not next in line for the lawyers, i'd be gutted

 

[Shadow]

Was any reason given?

 

[medic]

Was any reason given?

i would bet multiple csgo skins it was a google or record label C&D

 

[crepuscule]

Was any reason given?

Strongly implied to be (threats of) legal action.

 

[Shadow]

Blegh

 

[Zellia]

Dammit. So much better than the regular app. Guess I'll keep using it until the app breaks and then switch to newpipe.

 

[Brock Reiher]

doesn't background play work automatically on Android?

 

[crepuscule]

doesn't background play work automatically on Android?

YouTube locks it behind YouTube Premium/Red/whatever they call it these days, or at least they did when I stopped using the official app again years ago.

 

[Tangerine_Cookie]

Apparently they announced they were getting into NFTs, walked back from that, then Google went after them?

If so, understandable, but still absolutely awful. Vanced was amazing.

 

[Apopheniac]

One of the reasons I switched from NewPipe to Vanced was that I liked having the Vanced app for YouTube Music, especially after Google Play Music went down. I'll hang on to the Vanced apps for a while, and I already updated them on my wife's phone so that she can hang on to them.

 

[Pokemaniac]

YouTube locks it behind YouTube Premium/Red/whatever they call it these days, or at least they did when I stopped using the official app again years ago.

There's a Firefox extension that fixes background playback.

 

[Caviar]

I tried Vanced but couldn't figure out how to cast videos from my phone to my TV with it, so... that made it pretty useless for me.

Always good to support 3rd party alternatives to Big Tech but lol @ these guys if getting into NFTs is really the catalyst for them getting shut down.

 

[Brofield]

Shame to hear about Vanced, but never heard of it nor newpipe before and I'll be happy to check out Newpipe because I refuse to subscribe to YouTube on principle alone.