Google shuts down YouTube Vanced, a popular ad-blocking Android app
March 15, 2022
In this blog, I will let you know about the news that Google/YouTube recently killed YouTube Vanced with a cease and desist letter and some options you can use to get a similar experience on youtube with other apps.
Links to YouTube Vanced Alternatives:
Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
Invidious – Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.
NewPipe – The lightweight YouTube experience for Android.
FreeTube – FreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows, Mac, and Linux built around using YouTube more privately. You can enjoy your favorite content and creators without your habits being tracked. All of your user data is stored locally and never sent or published to the internet. FreeTube grabs data by scraping the information it needs (with either local methods or by optionally utilizing the Invidious API). With many features similar to YouTube, FreeTube has become one of the best methods to watch YouTube privately on desktop.
Open Video Downloader – A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js to Download your YouTube videos locally.
Here’s some more list i didn’t mention and found while browsing:
https://gist.github.com/SkyyySi/1b621c7c20ae7e0865a8ac428156c1cf
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