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55 points

i don’t understand why people don’t just use revanced and ublock?

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57 points

My main problem is that freetube perfectly remembers video position, without fail.
YouTube always fails

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24 points

Weird. I don’t have that problem.

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3 points

Some said it helps adding a tile to ublpfk, it didn’t the only thing that helped was a plugin.

Than again, I could use a chromium browser for it, they seek to work better

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8 points

I’ve had the same problem, in my case it was that my adblocker was blocking the domains used to track video position, which are mildly tracking-ish in nature.

*.video-stats.l.google.com *.s.youtube.com

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6 points

I’ll look into if I have the rule already or not. Thanks

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5 points

Pretty sure only s.youtube.com is needed. It’s the only domain on my AdAway allow list and it works for me

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2 points

unfortunately, this rule had little to no impact on youtubes ability to remember video positions

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24 points
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I don’t like having a google account that has google tracking any video I watch. Also… the recommendations are more addicting and with Tubular (NewPipe fork) and Freetube I just imported my subs and follow them a bit. Never had to deal with the shitty youtube website once. Also, ReVanced still uses the proprietary YouTube apk and I prefer free software on my phone

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-2 points

You’re worried about Google watching what videos you watch, presumably while signed into your Google account on an android phone?

Unless you’re running Graphene that level of abstraction isn’t much in their way.

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11 points

On LineageOS build with no Google Service, download using Tubular/NewPipe/Seal/etc. Play on VLC. Makes for a better privacy experience.

Lots of trouble to build, but worth it. The lack of spam and other spooky things is telling.

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1 point

With no Google account, on Cyanogenmod?

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I use /e/OS. Its an ungoogled android rom. Anyways, even if you use stock android privacy isn’t black and white. Any bit of privacy you can bear to preserve is a step worth preserving. Theres a difference in google getting some of your data or all of your data. Stock youtube is also too much focused on retention maximation for me. I find some creators interesting but think the addictive nature of youtube is toxic

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22 points

Never got revanced to work on my phone (in spite of reading all the documentation and online advice, doing literally everything that was supposed to make it work short of jail breaking or changing to Graphene) and as for ublock, I use it but I prefer YouTube on a dedicated client to a browser tab since I usually have far too many of the latter open at a time…

Besides, unlike revanced, NewPipe worked perfectly out of the box and it seems like PipePipe still does, so…

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30 points

I’ll just leave this here

https://grayjay.app/

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13 points

have you tried revanced manager? i typically just download revanced manager, pop over to apkmirror and get the recommended version (in this case 19.43.41), downloading the v8 package, going back into revanced manager and clicking storage, selecting the apk, and then letting it run. if you select the custom branding patch you don’t have to uninstall the original youtube.

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6 points

have you tried revanced manager

Yep. And if I hadn’t, that would be the first advice the documentation would give me lol

typically just download revanced manager, pop over to apkmirror and get the recommended version (in this case 19.43.41), downloading the v8 package, going back into revanced manager and clicking storage, selecting the apk, and then letting it run. if you select the custom branding patch you don’t have to uninstall the original youtube

That’s what I did, but it refused to patch. Tried every possible thing, but it just refused to work.

NewTube, on the other hand, worked perfectly immediately.

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3 points

I remember revanced stopped working and I ended up getting premium because it wouldn’t work on iPad anyway.

Are there any alternatives now?

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1 point

Well I’ve been using NewPipe until the above incident and now I’m trying out a fork of it called PipePipe. On my tv, I’m using SmartTube

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How does Revanced even work.

I mean, newpipe is just download install and it works.

Anyone have a tutorial?

(Also how would Revanced bypass age restricted if you need to sign in before youtube even sends the video over to you? Does Revanced use burner accounts like Aurora store?)

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5 points

I think revanced uses a modified patch of youtube spoofing premium. I’m able to sign in using my regular account.

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I wouldn’t use regular account for any ToS breaking activities. I mean you can get banned.

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2 points

I like revanced but it is still the closed source YouTube client and I still don’t know what it is doing. Plus you have to connect a Google account for some actions (like history).

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2 points

Would you be willing to share what you’re using? Either a response or a DM

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1 point

I use NewPipe that also can’t play age-restricted videos at the moment. I didn’t say that I was using something that works, just that I don’t trust revanced so much.

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1 point

even if you do, youd need an account

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1 point

Does revanced come with sponsorblock?

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1 point

Yes, it does!

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