The first notice dated December 6 was filed by the developer of the Android app ‘ AnyTracker‘. A knee-jerk reaction might pluck YouTube out of the air as an obvious sender, but that certainly isn’t the case here. Importantly, it also avoided the legal issues that killed off its predecessor but in the space of just 48 hours this week, ReVanced was hit with not one, but two DMCA notices. Readily accessible on Github and via its own domain, ReVanced wasted no time filling the gap in the market with a widely appreciated end application. When ‘ReVanced’ burst onto the scene to pick up the torch, former Vanced users were delighted. Since users didn’t need to root their phones or pay out any money, the app developed a considerable audience but in March 2022 and for mostly unspecified legal reasons, Vanced shut itself down. These problems and more were solved by an unofficial YouTube project called ‘YouTube Vanced’, or simply ‘Vanced’ for the trademark aware. Background play isn’t available as standard either, unless users pay for a subscription, which many prefer not to. Most complaints relate to the volume of advertising on YouTube, which seems to know when to interrupt a video at the most inappropriate time.

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