When people post YouTube links… is there a cool open source way to watch it on mobile without going through youtube? Because when I click on a YouTube link and I’m on my phone and it immediately gives me an ad it’s pissing me off like in a huge way… is there a way to bypass ads without an ad blocker on my phone
On Android, install newpipe from f-droid and YouTube links should go to it automatically. No ads, lets you download videos, subscriptions are entirely local on your device, but right now display of comments is messed up. The last isn’t a big deal for me. Ymmv.
Nice I have fdroid I can easily do this godbless
Newpipe, Libretube, Clipious. Those are front ends for youtube. I would recommend reading about them and cheling them out.
Nice
Libretube and Clipious are not fronts ends, they just use Piped and Invidious front ends respectively.
Another option other than new pipe is to download a YouTube apk and the revanced app. Ad free YouTube is what comes out of that.
On Android there are lots of ways. Newpipe or Grayjay is probably the easiest. Revanced is a little more complex but is also good. You could also use Firefox with ublock origin.
Thumbs down for the clickbait title.
Yes! You can use an alternative front end - you’ll have to watch in your browser.
There is a bot on some communities that will post the Piped Version. The other option is to use a version of Invidious which you can find here.
Clicking on a YouTube link will take you to the YouTube app if you have it. You’d have to copy and paste the link into the search fields of the above.
The other option is to use xvanced. I have not used it in a long time and I’m not sure of the current status but it should work.
If you’re on Android: Firefox Mobile with uBlock Origin.
I’m not putting Firefox or an ad blocker on my phone
Hate ads but don’t want an ad blocker? Sounds tough.
Did it make your day better to say that?
It was a neutral impact.
I made the comment because I don’t understand your motivation here. You’re making contrary statements while asking for a solution. I came to offer one, but decided not to because it’s ad blocker centric.
You don’t have to understand my motivation. I’m not making contrary statements to what I need and want… and people here on this thread have answered my question without being snarky about it… thank you though. I don’t have to use Firefox or ad blockers on my mobile phone if I don’t want to, and it doesn’t have to be a Justified reason…thanks!
I’m not putting an ad blocker on my phone
Then you’re not going to be watching YouTube without ads, I guess, and this was a pointless post. 🤷🏻♂️
Actually, with the help of the nicer people on this post I am now watching YouTube without ads on new pipe thanks so much for being a jerk though I hope it made your day better
Does it make you feel better that NewPipe doesn’t call itself an ad blocker, even though that’s what it essentially is but only for one specific thing?
It’s definitely going to make me feel better to block you entirely from my life and never see you again!
Are you looking for an app, or an alternative website?
Everyone’s got it covered
I wonder if you clicked and held the link if it would give you an “open with” prompt where you could choose an app like NewPipe or if you could have it auto redirect to a Piped source
Ooh cute idea I’m going to try that… Wait tho, you said an app… is new pipe good for YouTube? Do you have a better recommendation?
https://grayjay.app/ if you’re on android
Grayjay is not open-source, though, by the way. It’s source-available, i.e. you’re allowed to look at the source code, but you’re not allowed to do anything with it.
You know what’s super creepy? A robot just responded to a post I made on a YouTube link and recommended piped as an open source alternative haha that shit was freaky as fuck lemmy is cool
Iirc, some researcher or home user found out that iOS and Android are definitely spying on us. Probably windows too.
I’m not that interesting lol
That’s what you think.
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Oh yeah there’s lots. I feel like a lot of people use ReVanced but I’ve never tried it. I use NewPipe because it allows me to locally export my subscriptions and use the open source frontend Invidious on desktop.
A bit of a personal preference. I imagine one of the piracy megathreads would have a list of community favorites. FMHY or the one on dbz0 would be worth looking at.
https://photon.lemmy.world/post/lemmy.world/13959063
Not quite as good as Tesseract (😉) but the dev finally did break down and add Youtube support.
Great question, I usually close those immediately.
So do I you have to press it like three times or four times to close it and it’s really making me super stupid irrationally angry at a dumb phone and I’m so mad about it haha
Meh. The phones give us less and less control and plenty to be annoyed over; but the ads are greedy, evil Google’s fault. I’m taking heat over their horrible air autocorrect and/or packet loss on my phone. I really am biding my time, until I have time and money to switch to Fairphone or find alternative software that works with my hardware. Frankly, I wouldn’t have a smartphone at all, if I didn’t need it for certain things. Best of luck in your future endeavors, friend.
If you’re on android, you can remove the setting that opens YouTube links on the native app. My YouTube links always open in firefox, with unblock and in a private window. So no ads, no permanent cookies. Lately the quality has been going down as Google forces adblockers users to have a worse experience, but still works.
revanced
If on Android, use UntrackMe. When clicking on any YouTube link, or even Reddit, Twitter etc., select this app to open the link with. It will automatically redirect you to a privacy friendly frontend. Link YouTube to Invidious. You can customise the instances you want to use.
i watch youtube with revanced, no open source but no ads
