Just like the title says; I’m interested in being able to sleep to YouTube without ads, but I don’t fuck with their business practices and they don’t deserve my money. Unfortunately, I’m also a very inexperienced pirate and I’m unsure where to look.
Edit: for clarity I’m using a OnePlus 7 Pro with earbuds
If on Android, NewPipe is a great app. Blocks all ads and let’s you create playlists and stuff.
Firefox mobile with Ublock add-on installed is good too.
the Firefox solution is the best, you can even have the floating vid thing
its even better than the main app, with no ads
NewPipe is one of the best recommendations.
There is also LibreTube, and YouTube ReVanced
LibreTube depends on a Piped instance, and YouTube ReVanced will need a specific youtube-version and MicroG for Vanced.
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For revanced you can download the recommended version of youtube off apkmirror, and microg can be installed without issue.
Not true. Untick MicroG component when installing and select root install. It runs on stock Google setup same as standard YT app.
Statistically speaking most people here are running on an unrooted Android device.
Thus, giving a slightly more advanced answer going over the Root Install method is mostly useless.
Either way, I’ve been doing this for 8 years, I know what I am talking about.
Really lmao? It was requiring root because google won’t give your app with different package name the account details. Which android version and is original youtube pre installed/still there?
What?
Is your original youtube app still installed in your phone or not?
I have an uprooted Fold 3 with both stock YT and ReVanced installed with no issues other than I sometimes open the wrong one via app redirects.
Interesting. But that would mean google play services is giving all apps to access accounts, which is probably bad. And that was the exact reason why microg building for non root existed.
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The problem is that LibreTube, NewPipe and others do not login or sync with your account. I really miss being able to save a video to my watch later playlist on my desktop, and later on watch it on my phone and it’ll be marked as watched everywhere
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Agreed. I need the youtube recommendations
That’s perfect! This is probably the one I’ll go with. You’ve been a big help my friend :)
Why ignore ReVanced?
Privacy reasons I guess?
One thing I’ll mention for those like me that use the feature regularly, you can’t cast natively from LibreTube.
Would be nice if I could sync my browsing history in a way that what I watch on desktop using my Piped account gets all merged, in a secure and private way of course.
Revanced. It’s an universal dex patcher, primarily targeting Youtube.
it can remove ads and tracking and customize ui.Didn’t Youtube nuke this app? A few months ago I started getting a message that I need to download the official app to watch Youtube videos.
they nuked Vanced because they distributed a modified apk. Revanced is completely different, and it allows you to patch your own youtube apk with no ads, etc, avoiding legal issues. -> https://revanced.app
Newpipe, on F-Droid.
Newpipe x sponsorblock
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F-Droid is an alternative android app-store that is Open-Source and prides itself on providing other, Free and Open-Source Software.
Anyone can host an F-Droid repository and provide their own apps there, if they don’t like the official https://F-Droid.org one.
Revanced on mobile phone, Smart tube next on TV.
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That sounds sweet. Is it available on Android?
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it’s available through f-droid on android devices. I won’t recommend just downloading from their website because it gets updated frequently as some youtube updates break their scraper.
NewPipe, LibreTube or just Firefox with ublock Origin
Use the sponsorblock fork of newpipe https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe
That’st favorite solution
Firefox plus ublock origin, then just open youtube.com
I’ll try this out
To me YouTube vanced with sponsor block, still works pretty fine.
Why? Vanced has been dead for over a year. Revanced has taken it’s place and is actually maintained.
revanced.app
I use LibreTube: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.libretube/
But I heard that NewPipe is also very good: https://newpipe.net/
NewPipe has the nicer layout for sure, but you have to use a fork for SponsorBlock, which means its behind on other fixes, most notably some audio track issues.
Thanks for the links
I use newpipe from the FOSSdroid repo
I really like this fork of newpipe. It has sponsorblock and YouTube dislike built in
I use Piped (https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped) for youtube both on desktop and mobile through the browser, though there is also the app LibreTube which uses Piped as backend.
