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Youtube - like apps like piped.video, but as Android app? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Revanced instructions (official Youtube app, but with adblocking, sponsorblock and other nice improvements).

Uninstall Youtube (or disable if not possible)
https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/releases
Install
Open, go to "Patcher", find "Youtube" and download the specified recommended version from https://www.apkmirror.com/
Patch it, install it.
Install MicroG if you want to use your Google account with it: https://github.com/TeamVanced/VancedMicroG/releases
Launch your installed youtube app. You will need to login from within the app if you are using MicroG.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this require your phone to be rooted?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, not at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Weird got a message saying I needed root I'm switched to libretube for now, it's good

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also you have to patch the app yourself

I thought I read someone was providing "clean" patched APKs now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Google might go after pathed apks, but you can't go after patches (which isn't apk).

EDIT: Google actually went after patched Vanced apk and got it off the internet. ReVanced was born afterwards shortly :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

with some nft bullshit from the cancer creators too, tbf