If on Android, NewPipe is a great app. Blocks all ads and let's you create playlists and stuff.
Firefox mobile with Ublock add-on installed is good too.
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This. Unlike ReVanced that requires a bunch of hacks* to work, Newpipe is easy to simply download and install.
Has all the features premium youtube has, and unlike Vanced, it uses Youtube's API to serve the content, which means Google can't shut them down (They tried, and lost the case).
Because Newpipe simply doesn't use the advertisement API, you'll never* see ads in Newpipe.
HOWEVER. Please keep in mind Newpipe is currently in spaghetti code form, and that means fixing a bug causes more to appear. They're working on a complete rewrite, aka Newpipe 2, but it'll take a while. In the meantime, you may encounter some issues if you're on the road for example.
I've had Newpipe shit itself almost always while biking, due to constant mobile connection tower changes. For those errors you need to open the app up again, and press play. It unfortunately doesn't respond to bluetooth play/stop signals in that state.
Have you tried Revanced Manager? I'm not rooted and can pretty much just download the proper version from apkmirror, select it from storage, and run the patch and then install it.
I second this, I'm not very good with tech but I figured out revanced in like 5 minutes and haven't had any errors or issues.
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What issues do you have with ReVanced? It works great! The only thing that's kind of a pain in the ass is that if you're rooted using KernelSU, you have to repatch the app every time you reboot. Fortunately I usually only reboot once a month when the new OTA gets released for my phone.
Newpipe is also focused on privacy so they won't support cast feature
revanced just works (tm) though. everything aorks seamlessly and it allows yoi to get yt recommendations.
I'd rather not be on the receiving end of Google cracking down on ReVanced users. It'll happen eventually.
they'll just sue or dmca the developers again
or just keep breaking the app, like they're doing right now. (issues are usually resolved in less then 4 days though)
also if they already have you addicted to YouTube it's much more beneficial to force you off revanced back into official app rather then banning hundeds of thouthands of channels.
When vanced went dark I downloaded a bunch to try. Libretube, newpipe, clipious, and pipepipe.
Mostly I've been using pipepipe. A fork of newpipe. It has seemed faster and less buggy from the start. It opens invidious links. It just seems to work better.
While libretube has the best import/export options (it can import playlists and bookmarks etc) it can be incredibly buggy and clunky.
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the Firefox solution is the best, you can even have the floating vid thing
its even better than the main app, with no ads
The best thing is that you can turn off the screen, so you can truly use it as a music player.
Revanced. It's an universal dex patcher, primarily targeting Youtube.
it can remove ads and tracking and customize ui.
NewPipe, LibreTube or just Firefox with ublock Origin
Just use Revanced or Revanced Extanded. If you rooted like me (OnePlus 7 Pro + Crdroid 9.5 + Magisk & LSPosed) just use the magisk module, it work great but on my brother phone (not rooted) he use it with the MicroG without problem but you need to disable the official youtube app if you don't want dupe app
Don't click anything. Those are fake links.
This is the official revanced github and the website is:
https://revanced.app/
Edit: i see my comments weren't updated and someone was waaay quicker than me. :)
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If you're willing to sacrifice the perks of using YT with a Google account (commenting, uploading videos, history and playlists saved in cloud, paid content, mostly anything else that might require an account), then I'd recommend NewPipe (especially the fork that incorporates SponsorBlock).
Despite the sacrifices, you don't actually need Play Services in order to use the app, and the playlists/history stuff is made up by storing that locally in your device. It's FOSS under GPL, too!
It also lets you watch other stuff that isn't on YT (Soundcloud, CCC, Bandcamp, PeerTube and most likely others that I forgot), and even lets you download the stuff on them!
I use newpipe from the FOSSdroid repo
NewPipe with SponsorBlock
I really like this fork of newpipe. It has sponsorblock and YouTube dislike built in
I use Piped (https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped) for youtube both on desktop and mobile through the browser, though there is also the app LibreTube which uses Piped as backend.
On android you can do Youtube ReVanced.
ReVanced. Old Vanced is dead. Amd only use the ReVanced Manager from their Github.
I'll see if I can find that; thank you my friend :)
F***ing autocorrect
If any of you guys are having a hard time with making ReVanced work, RVX Lite on Telegram (t.me/rvx_lite) provides safe, ready-made apks that you can just install and use with Vanced MicroG.
I wouldn't trust that for shit. Nobody should trust this. Revanced is not difficult, if you can't get it working, then maybe you don't have the technical nous to pirate safely (not aimed at you directly, just in general).
Firefox +unlock....
I use songtube It is open source, you can download the videos or just the music, listen with the screen off, it is also a music player and it is more eye candy than newpipe.
What device are you wanting to play the music on?
I've got an Android phone. I use earbuds to listen to lore videos while I sleep
I use revanced, but it does seem like libretube is better
Does libretube, newpipe or revanced support screen casting?
I don't know man, I watch a ton of YouTube everyday and YouTube also comes with YouTube music. I just prepaid for two years of their premium service and I might do another two in the event they raise their price, I want my access locked in. Besides OdyseeTV and Peertube are WIP. It was like $100 a year flat or something.
PIA and NordVPN are probably fine. If your pockets aren't super flushed those are good services.