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.

There’s perhaps no third-party YouTube app more popular than YouTube Vanced, bringing a variety of features to the table compared to the stock app. Unfortunately, the app was shut down by its creators ...

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 ...

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.

What just happened? Folks behind the famous YouTube Vanced app have announced that they're discontinuing the project due to "legal reasons." The decision follows a cease and desist letter from Google ...

YouTube Vanced has been discontinued, its developers announced. The unofficial app offered background listening, ad-free playback, and more. The team has since confirmed that Vanced was shut down due ...

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 ...

YouTube Vanced is done for, Google has finally managed to shut the service down. This has been announced by the official YouTube Vanced account on Twitter, and various other social media accounts. For ...

The popular YouTube alternative, YouTube Vanced, was squashed by Google earlier this month. While that may have been the case, Google is looking to make sure that the service stays dead. Now, Google ...

Sanuj Bhatia, the managing editor at Pocketnow, is responsible for supervising and contributing to all the content published on the website, including news, reviews, features, and how-tos. He began ...