Anybody know of a good apk that blocks ads while watching YouTube on my phone app ?

  • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I don’t have a good ad blocker for you other than AdAway. It won’t block YouTube ads on an unrooted phone, but it can on a rooted one. You can try in-browser mobile YouTube with Firefox + uBlock, but I would suggest switching away from the native YouTube app and getting NewPipe with SponsorBlock from F-Droid.

    https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

    EDIT: Corrected link to current NewPipe.

      • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Highly recommended. You can even export your subscriptions from YouTube and import them into NewPipe. But that’s for another thread. I use NewPipe almost exclusively now, having YouTube links pull up in NewPipe. No ads. And with SponsorBlock, you can skip the in-video ads (with community-driven data). Not to mention, you can also stream music from Bandcamp, and it supports PeerTube, etc, as well.

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      1 year ago

      but it doesn’t on unrooted Android

      It actually has VPN mode which also works without root

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        They’re saying it doesn’t work to block ads on YouTube and I can confirm that they’re correct.

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          1 year ago

          Yes, but it works

          You could also use a custom DNS like NextDNS on Android 10+, but it’s not as private as adaway

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            You need to add an Xposed module for it to block ads on YouTube though, requiring root. AdAway VPN mode on unrooted phones won’t block YouTube ads. I just triple checked and tried it again to make sure I wasn’t talking out of my ass.

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              1 year ago

              Ohh. That’s what you mean

              Yeah just use ReVanced