YouTube will introduce transcription feature in the Android app. see details here

This feature has proven particularly useful in long videos, as it helps find or extract favorite quotes by searching the video’s automatically generated transcript. like very much Google Updates to apps, this also seems to be server-side.

In another related update, Android users will no longer be able to use the popular YouTube Vanced application. according to this ledgeThe creators of Vanced have decided to discontinue the application in the coming days due to “legal reasons”.

Note: YouTube Vanced is a version of the native app that allows users to block all video ads on YouTube without a premium subscription. Vanced also includes a true black theme, and customization isn’t offered in the official YouTube for Android app.

“Vanced has been discontinued. In the coming days, the download link on the website will be removed. We know this is not something you want to hear, but it is something we need to do.” Thank you all for supporting us over the years,” a post read on the Twitter handle of the Vanced application. Currently installed versions will work fine, “as long as they don’t become out of date in 2 years or more.”

Meanwhile, last week youtube blocked access For channels linked to Russian state-funded media around the world, it cited a policy on Friday to bar content that denies, minimizes or trivializes well-documented violent incidents. The world’s most used streaming video service, which is owned by Alphabet Inc’s Google, said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine now fell under its violent incidents policy and that infringing content would be removed.

YouTube spokesman Farshad Shadlu said blocking Russian outlets was in line with that policy. Earlier, YouTube blocked Russia’s leading state-backed channels RT and Sputnik across Europe.

Russian state media has called the restrictions imposed on them by distributors, including App Store and other social media services, unfair censorship.