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do you use revanced?

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Dennis@teacup.social
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I wouldn’t use youtube anymore without it

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kratoz29@lemm.ee
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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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ninjakitty7@kbin.social
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More people need to know about Smart Tube. Like sure my desktop computer is totally on ad lockdown but my tv isn’t connected to my computer so i was stuck with normal youtube on my amazon fire stick for the longest time until i had enough and went looking on my own. Never going back. Should work on most android smart tv devices.

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FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works
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Same

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TurboTurbo@feddit.nl
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No, I use newpipe.

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WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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I use newpipe too. But man it’s slow for me.

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TurboTurbo@feddit.nl
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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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WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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Loading the videos and buffering. It hasn’t always been slow. Seems to be recent.

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t0fr@lemmy.ca
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Yes, I can’t live without it

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DTFpanda@lemmy.world
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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.

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kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca
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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.

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DTFpanda@lemmy.world
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Fair enough. If you happen to have an LG like I do, I recently learned this trick to install ad-free YouTube. Worked like a charm.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LGOLED/comments/wzs6hg/adfree_youtube_webos_app/

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sim642@lemm.ee
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Unfortunately that isn’t usable for non-tech relatives, which is why I had to give up on setting up YouTube ad-free for WebOS recently. None of the permanent exploits seem to work anymore.

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Moghul@sh.itjust.works
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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.

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DTFpanda@lemmy.world
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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.

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AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
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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

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wason@lemmy.ninja
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You can use a downloader like Seal and when you want to download a video just share it to Seal.

https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal

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pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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or use the external video downloader feature

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