I wouldn't use youtube anymore without it
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I would not use YT either without Smart Tube Next on my Shield TV lol.
YT premium can fuck off until they ad Sponsorblock... Which they will never do.
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No, I use newpipe.
I use newpipe too. But man it's slow for me.
I don't have that issue. I am on Android 13. What in particular is slow for you? Navigating the app itself, the search, loading the videos? Has it always been slow?
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Yes, I can't live without it
I was a vanced migrant to newPipe when the former was cut off. Haven't tried revanced since newPipe has seemed perfectly servicable for me.
Revanced is great. I wish it could let me bypass some of the inbuilt limits like not being able to download videos, but that's a small price to pay for removing like 99 of the ads
You can use a downloader like Seal and when you want to download a video just share it to Seal.
or use the external video downloader feature
No I use NewPipe
Yes, also
- Newpipe
- Libretube (another foss frontend similar to newpipe)
- YTDLnis (for downloading youtube video and music)
- Revanced YT Music/ Innertune/ ViMusic for Youtube music
Revanced can also patch ads out of TikTok and Instagram π
Yeah I specifically use Revanced Extended which adds more patches for YouTube and YouTube Music.
No I choose to financially support Google and Youtube creators with Premium
I do both. I have YouTube Premium, but I also use ReVanced because it's just a better app than the standard YouTube one. It has far better options, like removing a lot of the bloat - cough Shorts cough - and many nice quality-of-life features. It feels much more responsive than the standard app for me, too - I'm using an older device and the standard YouTube app can feel pretty sluggish.
im technically a creator
Nope. I use NewPipe but I also have YouTube Premium if I ever need it.
I use YouTube premium but I use ReVanced to get rid of all the sponsors.
I know what a VPN is I don't need to be told about it every time I'm trying to watch a video.
No, I'm using NewPipe
Well a fast tutorial I can give is this.
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Disable/remove updates for the default YouTube app
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Download revanced from this site https://revanced.app/
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Install revanced app and update anything necessary.
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Download the recommended YouTube APK which is 18.23.35. Here is a link I used to get the APK. https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/youtube/youtube-18-23-35-release/
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Once that's installed, go to the revanced app and go to the "patcher" menu.
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Click "select an application" button and then click the "Storage" button you see on the bottom. Then find the youtube APK that you downloaded and click it.
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You can now select the patches you'd want the app to have. You could just select "default" to have it patch the 52 or 57 things that most people care to change.
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Now just click the patch button and it'll hopefully not fail.
Hope that looks good formatted. I'm on my phone lol.
I tried ReVanced but kept getting ads anyway, especially banner ads and ads in shorts so I went and bought Premium Family for me and my friends. Then I realised I needed SponsorBlock so now I have YouTube Premium + ReVanced (with the block ads patch disabled)
I am sure that the ReVanced group have probably fixed the issue and ads are properly blocked now but its so cheap in my country (especially Premium Family) that I don't even think about it
Si ce we are on topic, is there a way to have DeArrow on mobile? (potentially I could install it on FF, but would prefer an app for YT).
I'm on a YouTube premium family plan for free right now, because my sister had an extra spot open. Once my nephew grows up and I get kicked off, I'll switch to ReVanced or NewPipe.
I tried so many YT frontends and I found ReVanced to be the best, imo.
The fact that you can you can keep your account AND customize you frond end to your liking is pretty awesome.
SmartTube if you have an Android TV / Chromecast etc
No I don't watch videos on mobile
I use Clipious, an Android client for Invidious, on my phone. I selfhost my own Indivious instance so this is perfect in that my phone never connects to YouTube directly, and I can save all my subscriptions in one place without a YouTube account.
On my Android TV I use Smart Tube Next. If I really need to cast, I also have YouTube ReVanced on my phone for just that, but I barely use it.
As soon as Clipious gets a proper Android TV interface, I'll be set, as both devices can just connect to Invidious and let it do all the work.
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Okay, since this is kind of on topic I want to ask a question. I patched YouTube with ReVanced Manager for my girlfriend. Iβve unchecked the patch that hides the cast button in the player, yet itβs gone anyways! To cast to TV, you have to go into the settings. What can I do with this?
I believe the microG builds by inotia00 don't support Chromecast but the latest microG by team vanced does. You can still get it from GitHub. https://github.com/TeamVanced/VancedMicroG/releases
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Make sure you turn off hide cast button in Settings > ReVanced > Layout > Hide cast button
Thanks, Iβll check this.
Yes, and Smart Tube Next on my Shield TV.
I appreciate that tools like New pipe exist, but I need my account and my watch list with me.
Yes the Revanced YouTube Music app
I used it years ago with an alt. Downloaded it again the other day and it's like a time capsule lol. I don't want to get my main account banned so I haven't signed in with it, but since all my subscriptions are on my main, I'm alternating between newpipe, stock app, and revanced when I want to chromecast smth (which I haven't done in a while)
it doesn't get you banned i use revanced with my current main
well if you use micro g thing
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The fork of the original vanced that I used broke so I switched to revanced.
I'd love to continue using it but I've had issues with videos getting stuck in endless loading. So I have both revanced and the normal app installed
I've been having a similar problem the last couple days, can't seem to find a solution yet however.
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