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    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • ninjakitty7@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
    12·
    1 year ago

    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

  • DTFpanda@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca
      6·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Moghul@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Olifant@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • portside@monyet.cc
    5·
    1 year ago

    Yes, also

    • Newpipe
    • Libretube (another foss frontend similar to newpipe)
    • YTDLnis (for downloading youtube video and music)
    • Revanced YT Music/ Innertune/ ViMusic for Youtube music
  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world
    61·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • wpuckering@lm.williampuckering.comEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • yoichi@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    I tried ReVanced but kept getting ads anyway, especially banner ads and ads in shorts so I went and bought Premium Family for me and my friends. Then I realised I needed SponsorBlock so now I have YouTube Premium + ReVanced (with the block ads patch disabled)

    I am sure that the ReVanced group have probably fixed the issue and ads are properly blocked now but its so cheap in my country (especially Premium Family) that I don’t even think about it