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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

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (17 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Thanks for this.

Does Newpipe support YouTube music as well?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Newpipe is also focused on privacy so they won't support cast feature

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The best thing is that you can turn off the screen, so you can truly use it as a music player.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's perfect! This is probably the one I'll go with. You've been a big help my friend :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Revanced. It's an universal dex patcher, primarily targeting Youtube.
it can remove ads and tracking and customize ui.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

NewPipe, LibreTube or just Firefox with ublock Origin

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

revanced.app

That is the only official website. Do not install prebuilt apks anywhere else. Use the manager to build them yourself. Ask for help in their subreddit.

Their GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox plus ublock origin, then just open youtube.com

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I use newpipe from the FOSSdroid repo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To me YouTube vanced with sponsor block, still works pretty fine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Why? Vanced has been dead for over a year. Revanced has taken it's place and is actually maintained.

revanced.app

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I really like this fork of newpipe. It has sponsorblock and YouTube dislike built in

https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

For those using/hosting invidious, clipious works pretty well and has sponsorblock integration.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox will let you use both

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

NewPipe with SponsorBlock

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
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