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  • DTFpanda@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 years ago

    Not sure why anyone would rather pay Google money vs simply installing YouTube revanced. If that ever goes away (it won’t), then I’ll just go back to Firefox + extensions for YouTube on mobile.

    • Moghul@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      3 years ago

      I just skipped that and went straight for firefox with ublock. It’s not as good of an experience but I thought fuck it. Youtube’s going to fight these app solutions every time, but they probably can’t make Mozilla remove extensions. Plus I don’t have to be worried about logging my google account (even a burner) into an unknown dev’s app vs mozilla who I trust more.

      • DTFpanda@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 years ago

        That’s a good point! I had trouble sometimes getting background audio to work after closing the app, but this was over a year ago at this point before I switched to vanced (and ultimately revanced). There is probably a fix for that by now.

    • kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca
      2·
      3 years ago

      I have an account I bought from an Indian friend for around $20/y, and the only way I use it is for my TVs. They are “smart”, but not android-based, causing me to not be able to install smartube or the likes.

  • Olifant@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 years ago

    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.

    • protput@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 years ago

      Do you still have to do the whole export import of your subscriptions thing? Or do you just not use subscriptions? Can it sync playlists across devices?

      I absolutely LOVE smartube next on android TV since it still works with my subscriptions and playlists. Too bad they don’t have a smartphone version.

      • psilocybin@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        3 years ago

        Do you still have to do the whole export import of your subscriptions thing? Or do you just not use subscriptions? Can it sync playlists across devices?

        Yup, still need to do export/import. Re syncing: you’d have to use an external syncing mechanism like syncthing or nextcloud and even then you’d need to export manually.

        I don’t think NewPipe will ever get any syncing mechanism itself, it tries to be privacy first and doesn’t support any server side code, they rejected the SponsorBlock patch bc it leakes data to a server as well

        Its a very cool app and enough for me, but some things just will not be possible

    • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 years ago

      I’ve been logged in on two different accounts for years and haven’t noticed anything. It uses microg to handle the login stuff and I haven’t heard of any issues like that happening with others either.

    • son_named_bort@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      I’ve been using revanced since it came out and vanced for years until it died. I haven’t had any issues with my account at any point using either app.

  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world
    51·
    3 years ago

    I do. I tried newpipe but not being able to log into my account was a deal breaker. The only negative I have with revanced is that I can’t cast with it, although having Smart Tube on my Chromecast helps.

  • Bobert@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    3 years ago

    Yes, absolute game changer. Can’t live without it. Use various videos to go to sleep to at night and the last thing I need is for ads that the original content creator didn’t even ask for that are 5x as loud as the video I have playing.

  • Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    3 years ago

    Well a fast tutorial I can give is this.

    1. Disable/remove updates for the default YouTube app

    2. Download revanced from this site https://revanced.app/

    3. Install revanced app and update anything necessary.

    4. 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/

    5. Once that’s installed, go to the revanced app and go to the “patcher” menu.

    6. 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.

    7. 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.

    8. Now just click the patch button and it’ll hopefully not fail.

    Hope that looks good formatted. I’m on my phone lol.

    • dditty@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 years ago

      Have you tried getting a more updated APK and repatching it? I haven’t had any issues for several months after doing that. ReVanced Manager should tell which version to get.

  • Shards@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    Firefox nightly has all the usual extentions (ublock, sponsor block, and yt enhanced) so these days I just use that (with NP for downloads)