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
Revanced on mobile phone, Smart tube next on TV.
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
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
Lazy 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.
Newpipe, on F-Droid.
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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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
NewPipe is one of the best recommendations.
I’d rather use Newpipe with SponsorBlock.
I’m looking for a browser on Android which will let me use Ublock Origin and NoScript.
For now I use Brave and a DNS filter on my mobile, it works well for YouTube
firefox beta, you can use any desktop extensions by enabling an experimental feature.
Just normal Firefox stable works too. They have a Limited selection of extensions, but ublock and noscript are both available.
You can also create an extension collection and add that - it lets you add almost any extension to mobile, though I think collections only work on beta or nightly I might be wrong though.
Never heard of extension collections. Might be a beta thing.
Firefox will let you use both
Will I have to manually harden Firefox, or is there a hardened version like Librewolf for Android?
I use vanadium and adblocking on VPN , DNS adblock works as well. Bromite is a good option as well. The thing about putting Firefox on android for privacy/security reasons have a big issue , webview is chromium based . So basically you just get Firefox on top of everything webview has.
I see. That makes sense - I wonder if there are ROMs with a gecko-based implementation of WebView.
Well, I don’t use WebView much, if at all, so I suppose it’s fine for the most part. I might even disable it at this point
FIREFOX!
Will I have to manually harden Firefox, or is there a hardened version like Librewolf for Android?
Thank you, this is exciting.
Fennec. Idk if its hardened enough or not tho
Thanks, I’ll take a look
What device are you wanting to play the music on?
I’ve got an Android phone. I use earbuds to listen to lore videos while I sleep
Oh man I can’t believe innertune finally got updated. Hell yeah.
On android you can do Youtube ReVanced.
ReVanced. Old Vanced is dead. Amd only use the ReVanced Manager from their Github.
F***ing autocorrect
I’ll see if I can find that; thank you my friend :)
Ignore ReVanced, go for LibreTube. It uses Piped in the backend to access YouTube, and it’s got a really nice user interface on Android.
It also automatically blocks ads, skips sponsored segments, supports downloads, PiP, background playing, subscriptions, comments, live videos.
It doesn’t rely on shady alternative G services running in the background, doesn’t need you to modify any official APKs, it’s open source, and you can customize elements you want or do not want to see from YouTube. Give it a go.
EDIT: And here are some bonuses it’s got over alternatives: customizable sleep timers, channel groups, subscriptions synced automatically with your desktop browser (via Piped), the ability to proxy and reroute your traffic to YouTube, full Shorts support, live comments for broadcasts.
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
With LibreTube that’s only partially true. It doesn’t sync with YouTube, but LibreTube on Android will sync with your favorite Piped instance on desktop, so if you also browse YouTube on desktop using Piped, you’ll get that experience of a synced subscriptions list. You can use Google Takeout to easily migrate from the main YouTube to Piped with all your subscriptions active.
With NewPipe you’re correct - there’s no sync. You can import from Google, but there’s no mechanism to sync with a desktop version.
Agreed. I need the youtube recommendations
If you need account specific recommendations and subscriptions, you should give Youtube Revanced a go.
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.
How does LibreTube respond to fast-paced mobile connection changes?
I’m not sure, but one workaround is to download the video ahead of time when you have a solid connection.
