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
I use newpipe from the FOSSdroid repo
Does libretube, newpipe or revanced support screen casting?
A more privacy friendly alternative is Newpipe: no ads, background playing and theres a version with sponsorblock afaik if you would like that
That sounds sweet. Is it available on Android?
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.
Yeah just get it from their github or their offical website so you wont get a clone
If any of you guys are having a hard time with making ReVanced work, RVX Lite on Telegram (t.me/rvx_lite) provides safe, ready-made apks that you can just install and use with Vanced MicroG.
I wouldn’t trust that for shit. Nobody should trust this. Revanced is not difficult, if you can’t get it working, then maybe you don’t have the technical nous to pirate safely (not aimed at you directly, just in general).
NewPipe, LibreTube or just Firefox with ublock Origin
That’st favorite solution
Use the sponsorblock fork of newpipe https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe
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.
I use LibreTube: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.libretube/
But I heard that NewPipe is also very good: https://newpipe.net/
Thanks for the links
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.
I don’t know man, I watch a ton of YouTube everyday and YouTube also comes with YouTube music. I just prepaid for two years of their premium service and I might do another two in the event they raise their price, I want my access locked in. Besides OdyseeTV and Peertube are WIP. It was like $100 a year flat or something.
PIA and NordVPN are probably fine. If your pockets aren’t super flushed those are good services.
If you are just listening to music “InnerTune” might be for you. Uses
music.youtube.comin the back, without ads and able to run in the background. Available on F-DroidLazy piracy with YouTube for me, VPN signup and burner account. Am I happy with their business practices? Nope, but they play too much cat-mouse with the blockers that I’d rather they take my ~$1.17/m and left me alone.
Since they made the payment changes I lost my Argentina acct.
No longer accepting visa without a back acct in another country.
If you’re willing to sacrifice the perks of using YT with a Google account (commenting, uploading videos, history and playlists saved in cloud, paid content, mostly anything else that might require an account), then I’d recommend NewPipe (especially the fork that incorporates SponsorBlock).
Despite the sacrifices, you don’t actually need Play Services in order to use the app, and the playlists/history stuff is made up by storing that locally in your device. It’s FOSS under GPL, too!
It also lets you watch other stuff that isn’t on YT (Soundcloud, CCC, Bandcamp, PeerTube and most likely others that I forgot), and even lets you download the stuff on them!
I use revanced, but it does seem like libretube is better
You can try InnerTube of you care about music. It is like YouTube Music, but without ads, and can download the songs.
For videos, I am using ReVenced.
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 best thing is that you can turn off the screen, so you can truly use it as a music player.
This. Unlike ReVanced that requires a bunch of hacks* to work, Newpipe is easy to simply download and install.
Has all the features premium youtube has, and unlike Vanced, it uses Youtube’s API to serve the content, which means Google can’t shut them down (They tried, and lost the case).
Because Newpipe simply doesn’t use the advertisement API, you’ll never* see ads in Newpipe.
HOWEVER. Please keep in mind Newpipe is currently in spaghetti code form, and that means fixing a bug causes more to appear. They’re working on a complete rewrite, aka Newpipe 2, but it’ll take a while. In the meantime, you may encounter some issues if you’re on the road for example.
I’ve had Newpipe shit itself almost always while biking, due to constant mobile connection tower changes. For those errors you need to open the app up again, and press play. It unfortunately doesn’t respond to bluetooth play/stop signals in that state.
Have you tried Revanced Manager? I’m not rooted and can pretty much just download the proper version from apkmirror, select it from storage, and run the patch and then install it.
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Its v18. 25.40 with revanced extended now
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I second this, I’m not very good with tech but I figured out revanced in like 5 minutes and haven’t had any errors or issues.
How can we get Newpipe? Is it on the app store?
Install the fdroid app from their official website, then download newpipe from fdroid. This way the app will automatically update whenever needed through fdroid app store.
Grab something like Neo-Store for easier FDroid app management. Comes with a bunch of useful repositories included like Bitwarden, Newpipe. Also more user friendly interface.
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Yup
I use ViMusic for the music part
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ViMusic, and yep, I got it via F-droid
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When vanced went dark I downloaded a bunch to try. Libretube, newpipe, clipious, and pipepipe.
Mostly I’ve been using pipepipe. A fork of newpipe. It has seemed faster and less buggy from the start. It opens invidious links. It just seems to work better.
While libretube has the best import/export options (it can import playlists and bookmarks etc) it can be incredibly buggy and clunky.
Is Newpipe available for iPhones? Can’t seem to find it in the App Store…
The “Vinegar” app for iOS blocks youtube ads as well as adding various playback improvements.
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229
Brave browser eliminates the ads on iOS.
No, and it’s not available on the official Play app store for Android either.
You can install it via APK or the F-Droid open source appstore. I haven’t found anything to replace it on iPhone at all.
Damnit. Thank you.
If I remember right there’s an app named Yattee for iOS devices, but I don’t know how to install it. Maybe that could work?
revanced just works ™ though. everything aorks seamlessly and it allows yoi to get yt recommendations.
I’d rather not be on the receiving end of Google cracking down on ReVanced users. It’ll happen eventually.
they’ll just sue or dmca the developers again
or just keep breaking the app, like they’re doing right now. (issues are usually resolved in less then 4 days though)
Newpipe is also focused on privacy so they won’t support cast feature
What issues do you have with ReVanced? It works great! The only thing that’s kind of a pain in the ass is that if you’re rooted using KernelSU, you have to repatch the app every time you reboot. Fortunately I usually only reboot once a month when the new OTA gets released for my phone.
I’ve had issues that I’ve been able to work around.
I have previously had the error, “settings could not be applied”, which I worked around by uninstalling my YouTube updates, installing the recommended version and clearing revanced manager data. I now get an error about not being able to load the original APK. I work around this by deleting the two apks in /data/abd/vanced before patching.
I’m rooted and have to repatch on each reboot. Not complaining, just want to share my experience in case it helps others.
I love revanced, and feel so thankful for it. I can’t afford YT premium, without revanced I would miss out on so much great content.
Sounds very much like my experience: a wonderful project, but not without its flaws that are kind of annoying, but not a big deal for the price. :)
the Firefox solution is the best, you can even have the floating vid thing
its even better than the main app, with no ads
