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YouTube app is the worst (feddit.org)

submitted 2 days 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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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

They are neither included in standard F-Droid repos, nor Izzy, nor do they offer an F-Droid repo themself.

You can either use the direct download from their website https://revanced.app/download or from GitHub. https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager

The latter can be imported in Obtainium.

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Also you don't download the youtube app in the usual sense but rather a patcher application

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So in other words: You need to have the YouTube app installed for the ReVanced patcher application to work.

[–] priapus@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You dont need to have it installed, you can just download the APK. Thats usually the better option since the YouTube app you have installed will probably be too new of a version for the patchs.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Ah OK. Thank you.