News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support YouTube Vanced, a modified app that stripped ads and sponsored content from videos, is shutting down due to legal reasons. The development team is on the Discord server, Telegram chat, and SubReddit.
YouTube Vanced, a reliable yet ethically questionable method to watch Youtube videos without any ads, is being shut down. The developers behind the project have confirmed that they have stopped all further development of the project, and “Vanced” has been officially discontinued. The team is keeping communications channels on Discord, Telegram, and Reddit open for now. YouTube has always been an ad-supported platform. All the content creators as well as YouTube’s owner Google, earn from ads that appear before, during, and at the end of nearly every video that any viewer watches. YouTube Vanced was a platform that managed to strip the videos of ads.
