Google sent the owners of Vanced a cease and desist letter, forcing the developers to stop distributing and developing the app. According to a statement issued to the technology medium, The Verge, the changes that it will have will not impact users who already had the app, but it will no longer receive updates.
“We were asked to remove all references to YouTube, change the logo, and remove all links related to YouTube products,” a Vanced team admin said in a Discord message to the US outlet.
With this, the app is the latest victim of Google’s action against third-party applications that access YouTube, since last year the platform forced the disconnection of two popular Discord music bots, before starting to test the YouTube integration. with advertising on this social network.