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Recommend me an ad-blocking youtube app for android!

2 years ago General

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Up until earlier this year (or was it late last year? What even is time? o.o) I used an app called youtube vanced that blocked all ads on youtube when I was watching it via my phone. Then they got forced to shut down their app so it no longer functioned, and since then I've been basically unable to use my phone for youtube without getting spammed with ads twice the volume of the video I'm listening to every 5-10 minutes in a 30 minute video.

Assume I support the creators I watch regularly via youtube by other means so I'm not denying them ad revenue they might need in order to continue their work, and recommend me any programmes/apps you know of that function as youtube vanced used to, ideally just emulating/launching youtube but while blocking adverts.

I'm asking here because google is useless these days and just throws you a bunch of sponsored AI generated (at least they read that way with how unhelpful they are) posts for paid services, or three year old reddit posts asking the same question with equally out of date answers. XD

It'd be greatly appreciated if anyone does have a solution, because seriously I'm considering buying a second PC monitor at this point JUST so I can watch youtube while playing games in my free time without wanting to throw my phone out of the window every 5 minutes at the hellish interruptions for products I either can't afford or have absolutely no interest in buying. Help me escape one more facet of this capitalist hellscape in which we're forced to exist, pleeeeease. :3

13 Comments

Kaida ~kaidavali

Art-collecting space chicken

2 years ago

Instead of buying a second monitor if you have a Samsung tablet/phone and your PC supports Wi-Fi then you can actually use a method called Smart view.

There's a hidden menu in there that allows you to use your phone or tablet screen as a second monitor screen, I love it. If you need a hand with it lemme know, always happy to help out :)

Jeeves Bunny ~jeevestheroo

Ever Enthusiastic Writer

2 years ago

While that's very cool, unfortunately my PC uses a wired ethernet cable (as where I live is old with walls that play hell with wifi signal even over relatively short distances) so it doesn't have any wireless connection capability. Never thought to ask for it when I had it built as I didn't ever expect to have a need for it.

Kaida ~kaidavali

Art-collecting space chicken

2 years ago

You can still get WiFi pci-e cards for cheap, like £15-£20, slots right into the relevant space. Works out cheaper than a monitor

Jasiri ~liquid

aka Jasiri aka Stud

2 years ago

Try ReVanced, a continuation of sorts of the original Vanced.

You'll download the Manager, select the YouTube app (careful, the patches sometimes lag behind a bit, so maybe you'll need to downgrade if you're on too new a version), patch it with your preferred changes (or just leave the pre-selected ones), and it'll give you a different app to install. You can then give this ReVanced version the privilege of handling YouTube links (e.g. from other apps/browsers) so the original ad-laden version isn't used anymore by default.

Jeeves Bunny ~jeevestheroo

Ever Enthusiastic Writer

2 years ago

Ooo thank you! I got ublock origin on firefox for mobile and that worked, but should that prove unstable/unsuitable in the future I'll absolutely give re-vanced a look! <3

SHM128III ~shm128iii

Watcher

2 years ago

Firefox and uBlock Origin

Firefox and uBlock Origin

FIREFOX AND UBLOCK ORIGIN!

So long as you have uBlock Origin set to always update as soon as a new version becomes available (YouTube and uBlock Origin are legit having an arms race right now where they keep updating their code to get around each other, so it's updating frequently), you won't see a single ad on YouTube outside of sponsor segments that might be in the video itself. Firefox is the one web browser that I know for a fact still supports uBlock Origin (and they even have an android app version for your phone), but even if there are others I'd still recommend Firefox first on the grounds of it being Not Chromium.

Wakboth ~wakboth

Writer

2 years ago

This. There really is no good reason to not use Firefox and uBlock Origin.

TaiyoNuki ~glaedr5263

2 years ago

Seconding Revanced! Same features as Vanced, still uses MicroG, but it gets new updates https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager

pj wolf ~pyrostinger

Writer

2 years ago

I want to go back to the time where we actually downloaded podcasts

Jeeves Bunny ~jeevestheroo

Ever Enthusiastic Writer

2 years ago

I still download every podcast I listen to, and stick it on a £30 mp3 player because my newest phone denied me a headphone jack, so I stopped using it for music.