Not sure why anyone would rather pay Google money vs simply installing YouTube revanced. If that ever goes away (it won’t), then I’ll just go back to Firefox + extensions for YouTube on mobile.
I have an account I bought from an Indian friend for around $20/y, and the only way I use it is for my TVs. They are “smart”, but not android-based, causing me to not be able to install smartube or the likes.
Fair enough. If you happen to have an LG like I do, I recently learned this trick to install ad-free YouTube. Worked like a charm.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LGOLED/comments/wzs6hg/adfree_youtube_webos_app/
Unfortunately that isn’t usable for non-tech relatives, which is why I had to give up on setting up YouTube ad-free for WebOS recently. None of the permanent exploits seem to work anymore.
I just skipped that and went straight for firefox with ublock. It’s not as good of an experience but I thought fuck it. Youtube’s going to fight these app solutions every time, but they probably can’t make Mozilla remove extensions. Plus I don’t have to be worried about logging my google account (even a burner) into an unknown dev’s app vs mozilla who I trust more.
That’s a good point! I had trouble sometimes getting background audio to work after closing the app, but this was over a year ago at this point before I switched to vanced (and ultimately revanced). There is probably a fix for that by now.
I wouldn’t use youtube anymore without it
I would not use YT either without Smart Tube Next on my Shield TV lol.
YT premium can fuck off until they ad Sponsorblock… Which they will never do.
More people need to know about Smart Tube. Like sure my desktop computer is totally on ad lockdown but my tv isn’t connected to my computer so i was stuck with normal youtube on my amazon fire stick for the longest time until i had enough and went looking on my own. Never going back. Should work on most android smart tv devices.
After discovering revanced and smarttube I refuse to ever go back
I was a vanced migrant to newPipe when the former was cut off. Haven’t tried revanced since newPipe has seemed perfectly servicable for me.
Do you still have to do the whole export import of your subscriptions thing? Or do you just not use subscriptions? Can it sync playlists across devices?
I absolutely LOVE smartube next on android TV since it still works with my subscriptions and playlists. Too bad they don’t have a smartphone version.
Do you still have to do the whole export import of your subscriptions thing? Or do you just not use subscriptions? Can it sync playlists across devices?
Yup, still need to do export/import. Re syncing: you’d have to use an external syncing mechanism like syncthing or nextcloud and even then you’d need to export manually.
I don’t think NewPipe will ever get any syncing mechanism itself, it tries to be privacy first and doesn’t support any server side code, they rejected the SponsorBlock patch bc it leakes data to a server as well
Its a very cool app and enough for me, but some things just will not be possible
i have newpipe sponsorblock instead of the normal one
I have BraveNewPipe which has the sponsorblock patch too but allows me to follow Greenwalds system update on rumble
i didi’nt really do any research just found newpipe sponsorblock on f-droid from searching newpipe
Right they are now on fdroid I found out recently, pretty cool
No, I’m using NewPipe
Revanced can also patch ads out of TikTok and Instagram 👀
Doesn’t that leave TikTok rather empty?
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No, I use newpipe.
I use newpipe too. But man it’s slow for me.
I don’t have that issue. I am on Android 13. What in particular is slow for you? Navigating the app itself, the search, loading the videos? Has it always been slow?
I do. I tried newpipe but not being able to log into my account was a deal breaker. The only negative I have with revanced is that I can’t cast with it, although having Smart Tube on my Chromecast helps.
Interesting, I can cast with it just fine.
i never purposefully used the casting feature
Yeah I specifically use Revanced Extended which adds more patches for YouTube and YouTube Music.
Nope. I use NewPipe but I also have YouTube Premium if I ever need it.
I use YouTube premium but I use ReVanced to get rid of all the sponsors.
I know what a VPN is I don’t need to be told about it every time I’m trying to watch a video.
I tried so many YT frontends and I found ReVanced to be the best, imo.
The fact that you can you can keep your account AND customize you frond end to your liking is pretty awesome.
SmartTube if you have an Android TV / Chromecast etc
Well a fast tutorial I can give is this.
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Disable/remove updates for the default YouTube app
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Download revanced from this site https://revanced.app/
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Install revanced app and update anything necessary.
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Download the recommended YouTube APK which is 18.23.35. Here is a link I used to get the APK. https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/youtube/youtube-18-23-35-release/
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Once that’s installed, go to the revanced app and go to the “patcher” menu.
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Click “select an application” button and then click the “Storage” button you see on the bottom. Then find the youtube APK that you downloaded and click it.
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You can now select the patches you’d want the app to have. You could just select “default” to have it patch the 52 or 57 things that most people care to change.
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Now just click the patch button and it’ll hopefully not fail.
Hope that looks good formatted. I’m on my phone lol.
nah mabye I’d change the premium logo but not much
You should try and keep the sponsorblock patch added. You can just have it show a “skip” button on the sponsored ads in the videos and it’ll skip past it all. It’s a pretty useful thing to have. You get to also see the different marked spots on the scroll bar.
i meant from the default configuration from he one i downloaded via command line app
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Yes, also
- Newpipe
- Libretube (another foss frontend similar to newpipe)
- YTDLnis (for downloading youtube video and music)
- Revanced YT Music/ Innertune/ ViMusic for Youtube music
Revanced is great. I wish it could let me bypass some of the inbuilt limits like not being able to download videos, but that’s a small price to pay for removing like 99 of the ads
You can use a downloader like Seal and when you want to download a video just share it to Seal.
or use the external video downloader feature
I’m on a YouTube premium family plan for free right now, because my sister had an extra spot open. Once my nephew grows up and I get kicked off, I’ll switch to ReVanced or NewPipe.
