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A popular third-party app of YouTube has been taken down by Google, due to a legal challenge by the company, which allowed users to block ads without a Premium subscription.
YouTube Vanced was able to block any ads that would play before, during, and after a video you had planned on watching. As it was available on Android, the app could be used on Amazon Fire TV devices, handhelds running Googleās OS, and more.
But while you can still use the app if you already have it installed on your device, it wonāt see future updates.
The Vanced website instead highlights web extensions that you can install to almost mimic the appās intention without purchasing a YouTube Premium subscription that does these features officially. But this only highlights the issues with YouTubeās paid service.
[HEADING=1]Analysis: YouTube Premium needs more choice[/HEADING]
Advertisements are part of the YouTube experience - they always have been in one way or another. But in the last few years, ads have changed from being a short break, into an irritating distraction.
There was a time when you would usually see an ad begin at the start of the video, but now theyāre essentially anywhere in the video.
You might click on one video for example, and be greeted with an āAd starting in 5..4..3..ā right away, alongside when youāre clicking on different timestamps of the video.
[IMG alt=āYouTube Premium UK pricingā]https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/98...LLg5pEs4tc.png
(Image credit: YouTube)
It can be very annoying, and while this can be avoided with a YouTube Premium subscription at $11.99 / Ā£11.99 / AU$14.99 a month, many users simply donāt want to pay this amount just to block ads.
With this subscription, you get YouTube Music, downloads, and background play included. While these are welcome features, theyāre features that users donāt want to try.
But thereās yet to be a tier where you just want to solely block ads. This seems like an easy win for YouTube, yet thereās no way of signing up to a simple tier that only blocks ads.
Itās why there have been popular third-party apps and web extensions that have fulfilled this need, and for free. But with Google only seeing legal reasons for these methods and not other ways to appease these users, thereās little chance of seeing different Premium tiers in the near future.
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[li]Our pick of the best free YouTube Downloaders in 2022[/li][/ul]
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YouTube Vanced was able to block any ads that would play before, during, and after a video you had planned on watching. As it was available on Android, the app could be used on Amazon Fire TV devices, handhelds running Googleās OS, and more.
But while you can still use the app if you already have it installed on your device, it wonāt see future updates.
The Vanced website instead highlights web extensions that you can install to almost mimic the appās intention without purchasing a YouTube Premium subscription that does these features officially. But this only highlights the issues with YouTubeās paid service.
[HEADING=1]Analysis: YouTube Premium needs more choice[/HEADING]
Advertisements are part of the YouTube experience - they always have been in one way or another. But in the last few years, ads have changed from being a short break, into an irritating distraction.
There was a time when you would usually see an ad begin at the start of the video, but now theyāre essentially anywhere in the video.
You might click on one video for example, and be greeted with an āAd starting in 5..4..3..ā right away, alongside when youāre clicking on different timestamps of the video.
[IMG alt=āYouTube Premium UK pricingā]https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/98...LLg5pEs4tc.png
(Image credit: YouTube)
It can be very annoying, and while this can be avoided with a YouTube Premium subscription at $11.99 / Ā£11.99 / AU$14.99 a month, many users simply donāt want to pay this amount just to block ads.
With this subscription, you get YouTube Music, downloads, and background play included. While these are welcome features, theyāre features that users donāt want to try.
But thereās yet to be a tier where you just want to solely block ads. This seems like an easy win for YouTube, yet thereās no way of signing up to a simple tier that only blocks ads.
Itās why there have been popular third-party apps and web extensions that have fulfilled this need, and for free. But with Google only seeing legal reasons for these methods and not other ways to appease these users, thereās little chance of seeing different Premium tiers in the near future.
[ul]
[li]Our pick of the best free YouTube Downloaders in 2022[/li][/ul]
Continue readingā¦