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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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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Revanced is the native YouTube app with free access to the features normally in Premium like removing pre/midroll ads and picture-in-picture, in addition to extra add-ins like Sponsorblock, Dearrow, the choice to either remove Shorts entirely or automatically play them in the regular player, etc. It also works with your YouTube account, so you can read and write to your regular playlists, view your subscriptions, etc., and any changes you make will be immediately reflected on your logged-in web browser.

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Except it doesn't work. Within minutes, Revanced has gone into loading hell every time I tried it, every update.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

I've never had that problem. Are you running it on the latest version of the YouTube client that Revanced Manager says it supports? Or trying to run it on an unsupported version of the YouTube client?

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

ive had that happen with tiktok but not youtube. what i do is go into revanced manager and click patcher and select an app and look for youtube but don't do anything. look where it says suggested under youtube and copy the number (ie Suggested v20.13.41) then take that and search for youtube apkmirror and download not the one marked bundle. once you have it go back to revanced manager, click patcher, select an app, then click on storage and select the apk you downloaded.