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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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/
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.
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.
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.
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
You can use a downloader like Seal and when you want to download a video just share it to Seal.
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.
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.
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
I have BraveNewPipe which has the sponsorblock patch too but allows me to follow Greenwalds system update on rumble
i didi'nt really do any research just found newpipe sponsorblock on f-droid from searching newpipe
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.
Yes, also
I use Clipious, an Android client for Invidious, on my phone. I selfhost my own Indivious instance so this is perfect in that my phone never connects to YouTube directly, and I can save all my subscriptions in one place without a YouTube account.
On my Android TV I use Smart Tube Next. If I really need to cast, I also have YouTube ReVanced on my phone for just that, but I barely use it.
As soon as Clipious gets a proper Android TV interface, I'll be set, as both devices can just connect to Invidious and let it do all the work.
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.
Yes, and Smart Tube Next on my Shield TV.
I appreciate that tools like New pipe exist, but I need my account and my watch list with me.
Yeah I specifically use Revanced Extended which adds more patches for YouTube and YouTube Music.
I was using Vanced for around a year, and immediately switched to Revanced when it became available. No issues so far
I've used vanced for years and revanced for easily 6 months. I haven't heard of anyone getting banned since it uses MicroG for the login, but there could be a part of the TOS everyone signed that says you can't use your account to bypass their "rules", so it could be a technical violation 🤷♂️
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.
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.