YouTube Premium alternatives for mobile
YouTube Premium alternatives for mobile
Just like the title says; I'm interested in being able to sleep to YouTube without ads, but I don't fuck with their business practices and they don't deserve my money. Unfortunately, I'm also a very inexperienced pirate and I'm unsure where to look.
Edit: for clarity I'm using a OnePlus 7 Pro with earbuds
If on Android, NewPipe is a great app. Blocks all ads and let's you create playlists and stuff.
Firefox mobile with Ublock add-on installed is good too.
This. Unlike ReVanced that requires a bunch of hacks to work, Newpipe is easy to simply download and install.
Has all the features premium youtube has, and unlike Vanced, it uses Youtube's API to serve the content, which means Google can't shut them down (They tried, and lost the case).
Because Newpipe simply doesn't use the advertisement API, you'll never see ads in Newpipe.
HOWEVER. Please keep in mind Newpipe is currently in spaghetti code form, and that means fixing a bug causes more to appear. They're working on a complete rewrite, aka Newpipe 2, but it'll take a while. In the meantime, you may encounter some issues if you're on the road for example.
I've had Newpipe shit itself almost always while biking, due to constant mobile connection tower changes. For those errors you need to open the app up again, and press play. It unfortunately doesn't respond to bluetooth play/stop signals in that state.
Have you tried Revanced Manager? I'm not rooted and can pretty much just download the proper version from apkmirror, select it from storage, and run the patch and then install it.
Newpipe is also focused on privacy so they won't support cast feature
What issues do you have with ReVanced? It works great! The only thing that's kind of a pain in the ass is that if you're rooted using KernelSU, you have to repatch the app every time you reboot. Fortunately I usually only reboot once a month when the new OTA gets released for my phone.
revanced just works (tm) though. everything aorks seamlessly and it allows yoi to get yt recommendations.
When vanced went dark I downloaded a bunch to try. Libretube, newpipe, clipious, and pipepipe.
Mostly I've been using pipepipe. A fork of newpipe. It has seemed faster and less buggy from the start. It opens invidious links. It just seems to work better.
While libretube has the best import/export options (it can import playlists and bookmarks etc) it can be incredibly buggy and clunky.
Is Newpipe available for iPhones? Can’t seem to find it in the App Store…
How can we get Newpipe? Is it on the app store?
The best thing is that you can turn off the screen, so you can truly use it as a music player.
the Firefox solution is the best, you can even have the floating vid thing
its even better than the main app, with no ads