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YouTube app is the worst (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago by sexy_peach@feddit.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Normally I use NewPipe on android. It's an alternative YouTube app that can play videos in the background, doesn't have ads and allows me to download videos and music.

I had the YouTube app disabled with adb on this phone for all the time I've had it. For backup there's always the browser YouTube page.

I must have done something wrong and accidentally clicked install on the YouTube app again, so it activated and was back to normal on this phone.

Holy hell is that app a terrible advertising machine. Every time I click on a YouTube video now I get sent straight to it and it always plays ads and also has text ads all over the GUI so I can't even read the channel info etc while I wait for the ads to go away.

I don't know how people deal with that it would completely make me want to stop using YouTube.

Please do yourself a favor and install NewPipe or ReVanced (I think that's the name of basically the same app but with sponsorblock additionally). Both are on f-droid.org app store as well. Less important because you can manually use NewPipe but you could also disable the YT app with adb so it disappears from your phone.

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[–] scintilla@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like tubular since it has built in sponsorblock.

also revanced isn't really the same thing it's basically normal YouTube app with adblock and a lot of other nice to have features. still can use an account to sign in

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Out of the NewPipe forks I've gone with PipePipe. I think it's faster with updates and features but I don't know if that was the reason I originally switched over

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

PipePipe has a Login option that NewPipe explicitly doesn't want to implement to ensure anonymity, and thus, allows to watch restricted content.

[–] scintilla@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I liked that pipepipe had a bunch of other services available but the lose of sponsorblock is a deal breaker for me.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

According to the description on F-Droid, PipePipe has SponsorBlock, like Tubular.