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
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.
That’s perfect! This is probably the one I’ll go with. You’ve been a big help my friend :)
Why ignore ReVanced?
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.
One thing I’ll mention for those like me that use the feature regularly, you can’t cast natively from LibreTube.
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
Revanced on mobile phone, Smart tube next on TV.
Newpipe, on F-Droid.
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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.
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Firefox plus ublock origin, then just open youtube.com
I’ll try this out
I use newpipe from the FOSSdroid repo
I use LibreTube: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.libretube/
But I heard that NewPipe is also very good: https://newpipe.net/
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’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!
Will I have to manually harden Firefox, or is there a hardened version like Librewolf for Android?
Fennec. Idk if its hardened enough or not tho
Thanks, I’ll take a look
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 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.
LibreTube
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.
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.
