What about Grayjay? Haven’t seen that mentioned.
Pinchflat into your media server and watch them later. Done.
Just dragndrop videos into mpv
YSK with termux you can run yt-dlp on your phone
It’s still wild to me anyone uses or recommends Brave after their crypto scam and all their other shady dealings
Unfortunately there are still close to 0 other options on iOS for background play, at least it has the benefit of not being chromium on iOS
sigh
The Brave browser is based on Chromium. Using it to get away from chrome does very little. Different browser, same engine.
It has less telemetry surely?
It’s also got a MAGA guy as the CEO though, and he’s a homophobic anti-vaxxer
Yes. Less, but not zero. You’re still tied into Google’s ecosystem. Brave is basically Chrome with a few privacy settings enabled by default.
FireFox on the other hand is completely independent from Google, and more tweakable.
I don’t see it here but the top comment on reddit for this post was that:
If you have a VPN with a server in Albania to switch to that because serving Ads during streaming is illegal there. I have yet to test it but sounds legit and no one was nay saying it.
Holy shit it does seem to work, just tried it on my phone with the yt app and I didn’t get a preroll ad
MPV too
YouTube Search Fixer is also a must have extension. It removes all the bullshit yt is trying to feed you.
Any plugin claiming to bring back youtube dislikes usually does it with some off-site database, that can be easily manipulated, as the API for it has been deprecated completely.
For new videos (ones they don’t have old scraped data to rely on) they capture the like and dislikes from users who have the extension installed, and extrapolate the amount of dislikes from that ratio and the amount of likes YouTube shows.
Surely that doesn’t skew the data in any way.
I wonder if it would be trivial to hack one…
Yeah I don’t get it.
I have youtube run in its own dedicated browser (Librewolf) with Ublock Origin.
No ads. Works perfectly.
I may add the youtube shorts blocker, I hate those.
NewPipe android app.
They still doing that “at YouTube adds block you” thing where they nuke your account if they think you’re blocking ads?
Aside from what that other guy said about new pipe not actually having a Google login, I’ve also been watching videos on YouTube since forever and I’ve not seen an ad except for maybe once or twice and they’ve never done anything about my account so I don’t think they’re ever done that.
Or maybe I use YouTube so infrequently they dgaf.
Newpipe doesn’t allow login so Google can’t block your account
Revanced
Premium is for chumps who enjoy getting bullied by big daddy Google lol
You can use Orion in iOS instead of Brave, which is shady as hell and owned by a bigot.
