I am looking for for an app that registers as a YouTube endpoint, but has no ads and tracking (or backdoors). I had one (forgot the name) which stopped working. Please advice.

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[–] pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You need ReVanced app, that's new incarnation of Vanced app that ceased to work

[–] Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one 15 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure that Revanced still has google tracking since its a patched version of the official app.

Also if anyone here intends to use it: Please be careful. The real revenced site (www.revanced.app) has awfull SEO and usualy appears way below fake websites (that sometimes spread malware). The only real websites are revanced.app and the github.

Also you have to patch the app yourself for copyright reasons so don't trust and websites that offer a direct apk of revanced (the real website offers a manager app that you can use to patch the official app)

[–] ADHDefy@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Newpipe + Sponsorblock is a really good option.

[–] Hazard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

This is what I use. Great once you've properly customized it.

[–] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 11 points 2 years ago

NewPipe, NewPipe + Sponsorblock, PipePipe and LibreTube are pretty much all of them.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

Libretube works off piped servers and has multiple instances listed ready for use. It includes Sponsorblock and has a beautiful UI. It's slightly buggy sometimes but if you can deal with that it's the best.

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 7 points 2 years ago

Libretube is what you need. Its on fdroid.

[–] rush@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you wanna use Piped with a slick Android UI for privacy, use LibreTube. It's a native client for Android that uses a Piped instance of your choice (e.g https://piped.video or https://piped.smnz.de).

[–] gunpachi@lemmings.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Libretube is what you are looking for. It uses piped api. It's also available on F-droid.

Newpipe or Newpipe X Sponsorblock is also a good option.

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Newpipe X Sponsorblock

Wow, this is great. Are there any downsides of using this vs using regular NewPipe? Like updates delays etc.?

[–] Quereller@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago

Delay is usually 1-2 days. You can have both installed in parallel.

[–] kzhe@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Clipious for Invidious based, but it's not as good as Libretube Newpipe for Piped, but it's direct and reveals your IP to YT and has bad UI Libretube for Piped, but it's a bit buggy at times.

[–] Gamey@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

There are two majore options, Newpipe and Libretube. To summ it up, Piped uses the Newpipe extractor which is the backend of Newpipe and Libretube uses Piped to put a server in between and mask your IP, both are great!

[–] hyperspace@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

There's a couple. Libretube, newpipe, grayjay

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am amazed why no one has said Clipious.

It uses Invidious instances, and if you enable the proxy option, Google won't even get to know your IP address, which is not the case with apps like LibreTube and NewPipe.

[–] Gamey@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Libretube uses Piped so it is the case with that one too...

[–] JazzAlien@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Newpipe

[–] z3r0_Geek@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

New Pipe unofficial fork with Sponsor Block if you want to skip ads

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't bother with an app. I have found that FF with ublock works best for me on Android.

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Also my choice for using youtube on mobile

[–] Morphing7716@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Invidious is my way of watching youtube.