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.

The feature-adding and ad-blocking YouTube Vanced app was discontinued earlier this month, but the app’s developers said it would continue to work until changes to ...

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 ...

YouTube Premium is how you’re officially supposed to watch videos without ads so that Creators continue to earn revenue from their work. An effort has long existed to get around paying for the ad-free ...

Most Android apps worth using are in the Google Play Store, but there are a few popular pieces of software you'll have to venture out into the wider internet to obtain. For example, Fortnite is still ...

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 ...

Steve is the Weekend News Editor for Android Police. He was previously the Deputy Digital Editor for Maxim magazine and has written for Inside Hook, Observer, and New York Mag. He's the author of two ...

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 ...

March 14 (UPI) --A third-party app that allowed Android users to bypass YouTube Premium fees and block ads has been shut down over legal reasons. YouTube allows users to pay for an ad-free ...

Android: For whatever reason, Google has yet to give its Android YouTube app the long-awaited update that finally unlocks dark mode. iOS users can dark mode. Web viewers can dark mode. But Android? It ...

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.