After google took down Vanced (a custom hacked youtube viewer with no ads and a ton of features), some people on github have made an even more robust and open version called ReVanced. Since the youtube monopoly implies we’re forced to use this shit platform anyways, what do y’all think of this tool for android phones?
Edit: I should’ve made it “Youtube alternative frontend appreciation thread” because y’all suggested many good ones I hadn’t heard of.
I use it all the tim, works perfectly for me. Occasionally I’ll use NewPipe, but unfortunately I find the YouTube recommendation algorithm useful for finding things to watch (even leftist content) so I’ve been finding it difficult to switch fully.
I’ve been struggling with it lately actually. For some reason it doesn’t really work on my phone. The videos will play the first minute at most, then stop loading. Regular YouTube doesn’t have that problem.
Before that started though, I found ReVanced much better than the official app. Would recommend
I prefer newpipe to avoid youtube’s anti features like its recommendation feed and so on.
Edit: also newpipe is free software
It looks decent, though I prefer NewPipe.
Most of the time I don’t watch videos on my phone, so I just use the normal youtube app even if it has ads, but if I need to listen some music I use NewPipe.
Idk if ReVanced is easy to setup or not rn (i.e. It requires a specific version of youtube).
