This seems like a bad idea. People can stick with Vanced if they want I guess, but Vanced was shut down recently and this site doesn't make it immediately clear whether it's a fork, or a different team, or really anything about what's going on.

I don't see how an app like this gets popular and becomes safe to download without Google shutting it down a second time. I don't recommend that people download a version of the app that doesn't even mention the previous takedown and doesn't mention that it is presumably being maintained by a separate group. It just seems really shifty to me, this is a huge opportunity to throw malware at people.

A big part of 3rd-party software is trust, I don't like recommending an app to people where there is no chain of trust and it's not obvious to me who the developers are. And I don't see a way for whoever these people are maintaining this website to build a chain of trust without getting shut down again.

I would strongly recommend using an Open Source client that isn't currently getting legal threats and that is transparent about how it's being built and distributed and who is distributing it (personally I like NewPipe, but there are multiple options). I do not recommend downloading Vanced from a random site that doesn't even reference or acknowledge the takedown, I think that's dangerous advice to give.

The official website is (was) https://vancedapp.com/

youtubevanced is not official, watch out

They're shutting up shop and pulling all their builds soon. The assumption being YouTube may have finally sent a cease and desist.

Oh shit thanks, I didn't know

see also https://telegra.ph/Vanced-Discontinuation-03-19

That isn't the official URL, and the app is dead, as others have said.

Except for it being unmaintained.

But they've stopped development on it, and it's only a matter of time until it's dead due to Youtube changes.