The app also includes an AMOLED black theme, swipe brightness/volume controls, and the ability to restore dislike counts. Meanwhile, Vanced, which modified the official YouTube app to implement the adblocker, also added other Premium features like background play and free picture-in-picture (PiP).

Meanwhile, advertising in the Home tab and those related to merchandise and movie/TV purchases could be disabled. That said, a user-generated allow list for channels was available. YouTube Premium gives a cut of that monthly fee to creators in lieu of ad revenue.īesides ads served by YouTube that appear before and during a video, sponsor segments that are natively integrated and spoken by creators could also be skipped over. Vanced gave people, primarily on Android, an unsanctioned way to watch YouTube without ads that did not involve paying the $11.99 subscription. Thank you all for supporting us over the years.Ĭontent creators have always found this app to be ethically questionable, along the lines of the broader web ad blocker debate. We know this is not something you wanted to hear but it’s something we need to do.

In the coming days, the download links on the website will be taken down. The team behind this project announced on Sunday morning that “Vanced has been discontinued.” An effort has long existed to get around paying for the ad-free subscription, but “YouTube Vanced” is now shutting down. YouTube Premium is how you’re officially supposed to watch videos without ads so that Creators continue to earn revenue from their work.

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