I miss YouTube Vanced, it had better UI and more features than the official app. I pay for premium and I like it and all, but I wish they could've adopted some features from Vanced instead of monetizing previously free features such as background play.

[–] beneeney@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you tried ReVanced? It's just as good if not better

[–] Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ReVanced is doing the thing for me where it lets you get about 10sec into a video and freezes. IIRC, I'll have to look for an update. I had to use regular YouTube on my phone today and my god, it's unusable. Absolute trashfire of ads and sponsored videos clogging up my feed.

[–] Crizostomo@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Had the same issue. The solution that worked for me is going to Settings>Youtube>Miscellaneous then turning on "Spoof Player Parameter" and "Spoof Player Parameter Type". Might help if you update beforehand too.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I can confirm this works on the new v18.29 and v18.30 apks.

[–] cambriakilgannon 2 points 1 year ago

I use Brave browser on my S8 and youtube works fine. Can even enable a setting that lets you minimize brave or turn the screen off and the video plays

[–] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, but I've heard of it. Does it require root?

[–] jaackf@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nope, you just need to patch it yourself! Install the ReVanced Manager and you'll be ad free in no time!

[–] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Awesome, I'll check it out, thanks for the info.

[–] onichama@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

You can also look up ReVanced Extended so you don't have to do the patching yourself.