Don’t use brave.
I don’t, but why?
It’s Peter thiel’s browser.
Oh BARF
Counterpoint, some websites behave better on chromium so using brave as last resort is not as bad.
There is no chromium on iOS, all the browsers are actually the Safari in a trench coat.
Absolutely do not use Brave. Just use Firefox mobile as well, it has ublock origin, sponsorblock, and background play.
Another good option for iOS is YTLite
When did iOS get ublock origin and sponsorblock as extensions for FF?
Edit: To all the replies, I’m just pointing out that the guy above me is wrong. Yes, Brave is bad. But FF is not a good replacement for Brave if you want ad blocking on iOS because iOS doesn’t support any browser extensions outside of Safari.
Orion Browser supports extensions and seems okay.
I don’t believe it did.
Also, while it’s a bit rough around the edges, recanced YouTube still exists
yt-dlpis great for downloading media you’ve already found (or at least, playlists or creator channels you’ve already found), but you can’t use it for discovering new media. You still need a browser or GUI app like FreeTube or Newpipe for that, and it works better when you’re actually signed in with your Google account so that the recommendation algorithm works and it can keep track of what you watched for you.Don’t get me wrong; I would love to limit my interaction with Google to anonymously fetching video URLs. But none of the alternatives sync my watch history between devices or recommend new videos (beyond just new uploads from subscribed channels) to me.
Any plugin claiming to bring back youtube dislikes usually does it with some off-site database, that can be easily manipulated, as the API for it has been deprecated completely.
Yeah I don’t get it.
YSK with termux you can run yt-dlp on your phone
Or just don’t use YouTube at all
I just use ublock, but even if i didnt and used all the ones above that would be like what 5 min of my time, one time? Now you want me to directly download all the videos i may watch and somehow thats easier? Yeah im good, no ads for years now and thats all I want.
Ytdlp doesn’t even work right ever since the bullshit “flagged as grownup material” algorithm started account-restricting and silently hiding videos.
I’ve been trying to pirate music for my Navidrome, and the age verification is quite literally making it impossible to download some songs.
Thankfully some kind soul (Samiaouuuu@jlai.lu) a few days ago told me about monochrome.tf which provides files in better format anyway, so as long as the song is by an artist or band (and not an unpopular game OST 😭) it will probably be on there. I guess it’s built on Tidal.
I’d just like to be able to watch flagged videos from RedLetterMedia on my roku without logging into fucking YouTube. Lol
Ditch the Roku and get a Google TV box. You can sideload SmartTube on it which is an open source and ad free client.
I’ve already got a different frontend installed, but the other instances don’t have the flagged videos, hence the need to somehow download and self-host some of those episodes.
Newpipe, freetube & invidious.👌
You can use Invidious too
STOP USING YOUTUBE. USE PEER TUBE.
If you are a content creator; especially a new creator, make peertube your default.
YouTube Search Fixer is also a must have extension. It removes all the bullshit yt is trying to feed you.
Yt-dlp?
Its an open source tool to download youtube videos
About every mainstream youtube download program you or your parents have ever used are actually just a wrapper for this.
Bonus: If you want to learn more about coding its not that hard to make a script that automatically downloads the last video from a list of channels that runs on a schedule. Even ai can do it.
Is there like a “tutorial for dummies” for this? I tried to use it once but got nowhere.
I’ve been using Open Video Downloader (youtube-dl-gui) for some years, and it’s very user-friendly.
I see. I am not a programmer, not by a long shot. More on the grandma side of things instead. So please forgive if I’m saying something very stupid - I’m just ignorant.
I’ve been happy with NewPipe so far, 95% of my video watching happens on my phone. The only thing Newpipe can’t do is access age restricted videos. If this tool can do that on my phone, then I’m definitely interested.
Yes and no,
Yes because i am doing it, no because it’s just one part of the process.
Newpipe is cool but it doesn’t run on my phone so i needed something else.
You may have heard of plex, “run your own netflix”, i much prefer its competitor jellyfin but that doesn’t matter here.
Point is i download my YouTube videos on a schedule/script straight to the library folder of jellyfin, from which i can login from any type of device.
One shitty thing they’ve done that you can’t get around with these methods is the new “1080p Enhanced Bitrate”. I’m not going to pay for premium just to prove that, but 99.9% sure that on many videos added before this was introduced (that it was added to) they’ve degraded the base 1080p and the original is probably behind the new setting.
I hope I’m not right, but something tells me that the way it’s going, at one point they’ll only have 720p for non-premium.
Don’t forget YouTube revanced for mobile.
I have youtube run in its own dedicated browser (Librewolf) with Ublock Origin.
No ads. Works perfectly.
I may add the youtube shorts blocker, I hate those.
